The shirt is the one I wear each time we paint a side of the old barn on the family farm – the red barn. The one with paint so bright red that when it lands on my white shirt, I could be ...

But red paint remained popular on many farms because it was the most affordable. In 1922 the Sears, Roebuck catalogue offered red barn paint for just $1.43 per gallon, while other colors of house ...

the red barn. Why, exactly, is this the case? Is it the work of some massive, red paint monopoly dominating the rural landscape? Is it some sort of broader barn conspiracy involving the exclusion ...

The blood gave the paint a deeper red. Red pigment was cheap and readily available from natural sources. Clay bricks are red because of the iron oxide (rust). Same with barn color. Older barns are ...

Since we have had ever-sharp poneils of red barn paint, our co-eds need only rompers and a sense of humor (nearly impossible for a co-ed) to clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies ...

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red ... The simple answer to why barns are painted red is because red paint is cheap. The cheapest paint there is, in fact.

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According to the 1884 edition of Everybody’s Paint Book, by F.B. Gardner, Venetian red was “suitable for any common work, or for brickwork and outbuildings.” This red pigment penetrated well into ...