NATURAL RESINS

Used for varnishes and in mediums. The resin can be dissolved in Turpentine. The crystals will take a couple days to dissolve. Our damar is harvested by hand in Sumatra, Indonesia, where deforestation and political unrest have diminished supplies.

Used for varnishes and in mediums. The resin can be dissolved in Turpentine. The crystals will take a couple days to dissolve. Our damar is harvested by hand in Sumatra, Indonesia, where deforestation and political unrest have diminished supplies.

Gum Arabic is a dried exudate obtained from the stems and branches of Acacia senegal (L.) Willdenow or closely related species of Acacia (fam. Leguminosae). It is used as an emulsifier, stabilizer, and thickener. One gram dissolves in 2 ml of water forming a solution which flows readily and is acid to litmus, insoluble in ethanol .

Gum Arabic is a dried exudate obtained from the stems and branches of Acacia senegal (L.) Willdenow or closely related species of Acacia (fam. Leguminosae). It is used as an emulsifier, stabilizer, and thickener. One gram dissolves in 2 ml of water forming a solution which flows readily and is acid to litmus, insoluble in ethanol .

Used mostly in varnishes for oil paintings. Dissolve 100 g in 300 ml pure gum turpentine.

The name “elemi” is in the ordinary way practically restricted to the somewhat soft aromatic oleo resinous body collected in the Philippine Islands from one or more species of Canarium, principally Canarium luzonicum

Colophony resin, residue of turpentine destillation.

Benzoin is a natural resin. Gum Benzoin Sumatra, reddish brown.

Natural resin of the European pine

Used as an incense.

incense, best quality