Manufacturers of fine traditional, handmade paints, lime mortars and plasters for the decoration and repair of historic and traditional buildings. Est. 1989
We also added a craft day this year, with experts
@RoseJericho showing us how to repoint one of Sherborne School's limestone walls with lime mortar, hopefully preserving a part of it from the scourge of concrete mortar. Concrete mortar was destroyed in the process!
Splashing and rubbing in a shelter coat lovingly supplied by @RoseJericho on the Devon and Dorsets memorial we made in 2013 now in Mampitts cemetry Shaftesbury …
VACANCY - Traditional Paint Maker. We are looking to employ a colourman/paint maker to produce our authentic handmade paints. Full training will be given to the right candidate. For more details see https://t.co/P1an3dTqn2 #buildingconservation#traditionalpaints#jobs
Soft distemper trials underway in Fresco on the ornate plasterwork of the Hall ceiling in a Grade I property. Soft distemper is readily reversible and won't obscure fine detail in high quality decorative work. #conservation#plasterwork#distemper#traditionalpaint
Time is running out to book your place on our Traditional Paints and Painting Techniques Workshop, being held on Friday 20th May 2022. To book call 01935 83676 or visit:
https://t.co/mPkfXxOXIY
Places are still available on our traditional paints training day on 20th May at Horchester Farm. The day includes practical sessions on limewashing and distempering as well as decorative techniques such as grisaille. To book see: https://t.co/mPkfXxOXIY
Founded at the time of the ‘lime revival’, Rose of Jericho
has been committed to the research, development and
supply of authentic materials and specialist advice for
the sympathetic decoration and repair of traditional
and historic buildings for over 30 years.
We produce a wide range of ready to use pre-mixed lime putty bedding and pointing mortars, hair and fibre reinforced basecoat plasters, fine finish plasters and external renders, all made using our mature lime putty and a variety of aggregates.
Sheltercoats are thicker than limewash as the colour is achieved by the addition of very fine stone dust and are normally intended as a sacrificial coating to delay the deterioration of decaying stone.
Sheltercoats are individually matched on a project-by-project basis.
Our Ivory is a warm cream-white matched to an example of 19th century American scrimshaw.
Our Ivory is available in all 11 historical paint types, including our distempers, emulsions and eggshells.
Pozzolans are materials that are not themselves
cementitious, but contain constituents that will combine with lime at ordinary temperatures in the presence of water to form stable insoluble hydraulic compounds.
We stock a range of pozzolanic materials for addition
to mortars.
Buttermilk: A warm soft pale cream-yellow with a hint of red produced using a natural yellow earth pigment.
Buttermilk is just one of many neutral paint colours we offer, which continue to be our most popular colours.
We undertake consultancy work in many areas of building conservation, on projects ranging from private cottages to historic palaces.
We offer a unique mortar analysis service with particular expertise in the analysis of historic and traditional materials.
Yellow is the colour of the sun, the oldest and most central symbol of divine power to ancient cultures. The sun has been worshipped by countless religions with numerous sun-gods wearing yellow as representations of it.