sandarac

Morocco has been the main place of origin of sandarac.

Historically, especially in the Late Medieval and Renaissance era, sandarac was used to make varnish.

Finally, the plate was dried and varnished using a varnish made from sandarac, alcohol and lavender oil.

Besides the resin and the varnish, the word sandarac may refer to the tree that produces the resin.

When "varnish" was spoken of in Renaissance Italy (Italian vernice) it usually meant sandarac.

Historically sandarac was also used as a remedy for diarrhea, particularly in the Middle East, but today this has no medicinal advantage over various other therapies.

Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing, which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac.

Additives to the shellac mixture include sandarac (sap of an African cedar) and copal, sap of a South American tree.

To distinguish this meaning from the Greek meaning, it was occasionally called "Arabian sandarac" or "sandaracha Arabum" in New Latin writings.

The resins include amber, dammar, copal, rosin, sandarac, elemi, benzoin, mastic, balsam, shellac, and a multitude of lacquers.

Resins that are used in varnishes include amber, kauri gum, dammar, copal, rosin (pine resin), sandarac, balsam, elemi, mastic, and others.

Tetraclinis (also called arar, araar or Sictus tree) is a genus of evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Tetraclinis articulata, also known as Thuja articulata, sandarac, sandarac tree or Barbary thuja, endemic to the western Mediterranean region.