The favorite color of the rococo and the common people has many names; dala blue, pigeon blue, gray blue. We call it ‘common blue’ because it was so dominant in the interior painting of the common people in the 18th and 19th centuries. The color is not normally broken.
Nearest NCS S 5010-B70G
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Content: Boiled, cold-pressed linseed oil. Pigment.
Features: Completely solvent-free. Easy to renew and maintain. Thin and lightweight. very thick Good hiding power. Excellent color fastness. Good adhesion. Penetrates deeply into the substrate.
Intended for: Outdoors on wood, sheet metal and iron. Excellent also on top of old linseed oil paint. Indoors: Wood, plaster, iron, etc. Suitable for both dry and damp areas.
Gloss: Shiny as freshly painted, but goes down to semi-matt after a few months. Can be matted faster by adding solvent in the last coat.
Thinner: Can be thinned with boiled linseed oil and/or turpentine. If you want to avoid thinners completely, just spread the paint thinner.
Linseed oil: Linseed oil is of the highest quality, produced in unbroken tradition in the same factory since 1839. The cold-pressed linseed oil is boiled according to tradition to minimize mold growth.
Painting instructions: Follow the instructions on the can or read our article in Building Care – Do it yourself here on the website.
EUR15.36 – EUR42.27
Finished paint in a light blue-gray color. Very common throughout the 19th century and especially during the pearlescent period. The color became especially popular around the turn of the century 1900, as a kitchen paint and generally as a paint for indoor carpentry.
Nearest NCS S 2002-B
Brown color that is rarely used 100%, but a classic in breaks with white. Together with white, it gives an old pink color, without a tendency towards sharp edges.
Pink is a common accent, both indoors and outdoors, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Sample jars with ready-to-use refractions in 1%, 7%, 15%, 30%, and 60%
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Common brown color with a tendency towards beige, especially in the second half of the 19th century. Most commonly found in mixtures with white, where it gives a nougat color.
Sample jars with pre-broken percentages 1%, 7%, 15%, 30%, 60%
EUR12.64 – EUR42.27
A cold gray color with a tendency towards blue, made mainly of carbon black and white pigment. Common as a carpenter’s color, especially in the 19th century, then usually broken with white. Carbon black gray can sometimes be found in 100%, for example as a sill paint, but it is otherwise mostly used as a break color and is rarely painted unbroken.
Sample jars are available with pre-broken percentages 0.5%, 2%, 7%, 15%, 30%
Absolute carbon black paint, made from carbon black. Ready-made color for e.g. tin roofing and forging. Black is common as an unbroken color, but is also used as a breaking color to make other colors darker. Extremely good hiding power.
Nearest NCS S 9000-N
EUR15.36 – EUR116.81
Pea green fashionable color in the second half of the 19th century. Used unbroken on garden furniture, windows, front doors and tin roofs.
Environmental image: The Sommarro garden group is painted with 100% Chrome Oxide Green linseed oil paint
EUR12.64 – EUR116.81
Djurgårdsgrön is a typical 19th century color named after Djurgården in Stockholm, a part of the capital that has a lot of buildings left from the mid-19th century.
The green color was painted on the facades and for the windows, white was used, broken with about 10 percent green umber (so-called Stockholm white).
The color is also very common as a window color and the opposite relationship is at least as common; Stockholm white facade and Stockholm white lining and zoo green window frames.
Nearest NCS S 5020-G10Y
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Maroon color. Classic from the 17th century onwards for joinery. Very popular from the end of the 18th century onwards, as the color resembles mahogany, a type of wood that was fashionable at the time. Finished color in a can, and normally does not break. Extremely good hiding power.
Nearest NCS S 5040-Y80R
Ready-mixed beautiful, mild blue-gray tone that fits in most environments.
Closest NCS S4020-R80B
Finished neutral gray linseed oil paint of a shade that does not tend towards green or blue, but is more of the same color as, for example, a Carrara marble. A very common color from the 18th century onwards on all carpentry, both indoors and outdoors.
Nearest NCS S 2005-Y20R
Dark greenish-brown color, reminiscent of green umber but greener. becomes warm gray in breaks with white.
Common window color in the 18th and 19th centuries. The windows at Stockholm Castle are painted in this color. Very effective as window color on red cottages with white linings.
Ready-baked paint in a dark pearl gray-green color, common already in the 18th century. Suitable as a carpentry paint outdoors, for windows and doors on older wooden houses and for carpentry indoors, from the 18th century onwards.
Nearest NCS S 3005-G80Y
A classic warm gray color. White broken with 15% Green Umbra.
Nearest NCS S 2502-Y
100% it is dark gray-brown, broken with white it is warm gray. It is available in the following percentages: 2%, 7%, 15%, 30%, 60%.
When you want to paint knots and linings on wooden houses from the 18th to the 20th century, it is good to know that there was a different amount of refraction of the white color in different eras.
The most common was 30% green umber in the 18th century, giving a distinct limestone gray hue. During the 19th century, the fashion lightens and the “white” color often ended up around 15% green umber.
By the turn of the century, however, only light, soft white is the highest fashion, corresponding to 2% green umber.
Since the same colors and the same paint qualities were also painted indoors with roughly the same timetable, our ready-made paints are suitable for both indoors and outdoors. Indoors, this linseed oil paint was used on windows, carpentry, breast panels, doors and more.
Broken warm white. White off-white with 2% Green Umbra.
Nearest NCS S 1002-Y
EUR15.36 – EUR172.26
Light limestone gray color. White broken with 30% Green Umbra.
Nearest NCS S 3502-Y
Dark limestone gray color. White broken with 60% Green Umbra.
Nearest NCS S 5005-Y50R
A light warm grayish color. White broken with 7% Green Umbra.
Nearest NCS S 1502-Y
Unbroken 100% is often used for thresholds, for example. However, it is usually broken with white, which gives warm gray, pearl gray or marble white colors, which was common in the 18th century. Often used in glazing.
At last, linseed oil paint with real earth color pigments!
It is the linseed oil paint that has preserved and embellished Sweden’s buildings for centuries. Linseed oil paint was a matter of course, both indoors and outdoors until the 1960s. If you want to renovate in a sustainable, natural and beautiful way, then Linseed Oil Paint is No 1.
We can now proudly present three new colors of linseed oil paint made from the finest earth color pigment imaginable. Green Umbra from Verona, Red Ochre from Roussillon and French Golden Ochre.
A linseed oil paint pigmented with genuine earth color pigments gives an extra dimension to the painted surface. Made from clay soils that have been washed and bleached by nature itself over thousands of years, they are produced in the same way today as when oil paint was introduced to our northern latitudes centuries ago. Natural clay pigments such as golden ochre and red ochre are muted and vibrant at the same time, giving the natural color tone a perfect balance for old and new houses.
While developing these new colors, we have also improved our linseed oil paint. In collaboration with Kerstin Lyckman, Sweden’s only doctor of historical oil paints, we have developed our paint, which now has better coverage and longevity and is also more historically accurate. Back to basics!
Classic golden yellow color that has been used unbroken for almost 300 years as a door and window color outdoors. It has the same warmth as oak. It has also been used to create the illusion of oak. It is also commonly mixed with white to give a manor yellow color (30 – 10% yellow ochre).
Our Gulockra linseed oil paint was replaced in 2017 with Gulockra natural linseed oil paint, which is made entirely from the finest earth color pigment imaginable, golden ochre from France. A linseed oil paint pigmented with genuine earth color pigments gives an extra dimension to the painted surface.
The pigment is made from clay soils that have been washed and bleached by nature itself over thousands of years and is produced in the same way today as it was hundreds of years ago. Natural clay pigments such as golden ochre and red ochre are both muted and vibrant, giving natural color tones.
If you want the same shade as previous breaks of our previous color gulockra, you should break according to the table below when breaking with Gulockra natur.
60% Gulockra = 80% Gulockra natural
30% Gulockra = 60% Gulockra natural
15% Gulockra = 30% Gulockra natural
Pure brown color. Commonly used on the exterior as a window and door color mainly during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sample jars are available in ready-to-use percentages 1%, 7%, 15%, 30%, 60%.
A more yellowish red than English red. Common interior color during the early 20th century, for example on Carl Larsson’s red furniture.
Nearest NCS S4050-Y80R
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Neutral, saturated yellow color. Mostly used as a breaking color, to turn white color into light yellow.
Sample jars with ready-to-use percentages are available 1%, 7%, 15%, 30%, 60%.
Commonly used as such in wall paint indoors and as carpentry paint outdoors. Does not tend towards pink or apricot when mixed with white, but retains its neutral yellowness.
Jugendgrön is a color that was common both externally and internally from the 1890s until the 1930s.
Externally, it is often seen on window frames; internally, it is a very common color on the fixed kitchen furniture and in the kitchen and hallway as a wall color. Jugendgrön is therefore closely associated with beadboard panels in particular, but it was also often used on furniture. As a color, it can be described as a light chrome oxide green, but yellower and at the same time a little brighter green. In interior painting at the beginning of the 20th century, it was often combined with Jugendbeige on linings, windows and doors, but a darker color, about 7-15% unfired umber, is also a common contrast color to Jugendgrön.
Nearest NCS S 3020-G40Y
