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substance

Plain Japan

Colors & materials

A named craft material / finish lemma (Plain Japan) drawn as an exact public-domain workshop phrase.

  • Plain Japan is historically related to Iron.

    japanning-handbook seats orphan plain-japan beside iron as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.

    from William Norman Brown · Handbook on Japanning, PD Gutenberg #15622

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Handbook on Japanning · William Norman Brown

    William Norman Brown, Handbook on Japanning (PD Gutenberg ed.).