Svenska trähus

[spyfrog]

Ursprungligen postat av akstimur

Säg mig, vad måla målade traditionella svenska trähus?

Det naturliga färg? Vad är dess sammansättning?
Nu använder samma färg som det århundradet före sista, eller det bara ser ut?

Hej Akstimur.

I suggest that you write your question in English instead of use Google translate since the translation to Swedish isn't so good.

I guess you are thinking of the traditional Swedish red that many houses are painted in? That is called Falu rödfärg from the beginning. Loosly translates to "Red paint from Falu". Falu is in this case the old copper mine in Falun that was called Falu gruva.

The old red paint is a simple paint that gets it's red colour from the copper ore rich minerals that was left after the mining of the copper ore. So it is waste from the mine that is used to make it. They still make the colour there and they can continue to make it for a while. So the original colour is still used. You can read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red

Off course, today we also use other paints instead off this original paint. However, the red colour is popular so several other companies have paints with simular colours but most of them doesn't use the old formula that make up real Falu rödfärg but rather uses their own standard paints and dyies them in the same red as Falu rödfärg.