What is “real” Venetian Plaster?
Today, there are a number of misconceptions and ideas about Venetian plaster. Modern-day “Venetian plaster” and we use that term loosely, means many different things to many different people. You might have heard the saying “You can paint white stripes on a black horse and call it a zebra, but it’s still a horse,” or was it paint black stripes on a white horse…I could never get it straight! Well, you can also put white plaster in a white plastic bucket and call it “Venetian plaster,” but in most cases, it isn’t. There are many “so called” Venetian plaster experts who really don’t know what real Lime plasters are supposed to do and how they operate. There are many companies that sell products under the label “Venetian plaster.” If you sold one of these buckets to an artisan living in Venice 200 years ago, they would dump the bucket into the canal along with the salesman that sold it to them. Venetian plaster (and just because it’s made it Italy doesn’t make it real) is a term used for m
