{"title":"Button Lac","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor most of shellac's working history, this was simply how shellac came: seedlac melted over a charcoal fire and pressed by hand into buttons. The heat pre-polymerizes the resin, and the natural wax stays in — a hard, warm, traditional film that French polishers and floor finishers have leaned on for centuries. Button lac is still made by hand, in steadily fewer places, by families who have done the work for generations. What we carry is pure and uncut, sourced direct. The color runs from a light golden amber to a deep reddish brown.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bysakhi-button-lac","title":"Bysakhi Button Lac","description":"\u003cp\u003eBysakhi button lac. A wax-containing button-form shellac, hand-refined in the cottage tradition, period-correct for French polishing and conservation work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost commercial shellac sold today is dewaxed flake — a 20th-century industrial product. Button lac is the older form, the one classical finishing texts describe. The wax is part of the structure, not an impurity to be removed. The buttons are still produced by hand in small operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBysakhi sits among the lighter button lacs in the lineup — a middle-tone shellac that builds without dominating the wood beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shellac.net","offers":[{"title":"1 Lb","offer_id":52328547778853,"sku":"SHL-BTN-BYSAKHI-1LB","price":66.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/2 Lb","offer_id":52328547811621,"sku":"SHL-BTN-BYSAKHI-HLF","price":34.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/4 Lb","offer_id":52328547844389,"sku":"SHL-BTN-BYSAKHI-QTR","price":19.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/bysakhi-button-lac-hero.jpg?v=1779970364"},{"product_id":"kusmi-1-button-lac","title":"Kusmi #1 Button Lac","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe historically authentic form of shellac. Wax-containing, cottage-produced, period-correct for French polishing and conservation work. From the highest grade our partners select for us each season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost commercial shellac sold today is a 20th-century industrial product — dewaxed, processed by methods that did not exist when classical finishing texts were written. Button lac is what shellac was for most of its working history, including all of the period those texts cover. The buttons are still produced by hand in small cottage operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time. There is no industrial substitute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe carry the Kusmi #1 grade specifically because it comes from the Kusum tree itself and undergoes a hand-refining process that preserves the natural wax structure. The result reads warm honey in alcohol, builds with a few well-laid passes, and rubs out the way the old texts describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shellac.net","offers":[{"title":"1 Lb","offer_id":52328554594597,"sku":"SHL-BTN-K1-1LB","price":67.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1\/2 Lb","offer_id":52328554627365,"sku":"SHL-BTN-K1-HLF","price":35.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1\/4 Lb","offer_id":52328554660133,"sku":"SHL-BTN-K1-QTR","price":19.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/kusmi-1-button-lac-hero_b57db720-87fd-4cc1-9d3e-fa0eba289aa4.jpg?v=1779970455"},{"product_id":"kusmi-2-button-lac","title":"Kusmi #2 Button Lac","description":"\u003cp\u003eKusmi #2 button lac. The same Kusmi-grade button-form shellac as our #1 grade, sorted at a slightly lower selectivity — meaning a touch more variation in button color and a price that reflects the grade. The same hand-refined cottage process, the same wax-containing structure, the same source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost commercial shellac sold today is dewaxed flake — a 20th-century industrial product. Button lac is the older form, the one classical finishing texts describe. The wax is part of the structure, not an impurity to be removed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKusmi #2 is the grade for finishers who want pure, traceable button lac at a working price — for shops doing larger volume, for restoration where multiple coats are needed, for any project where the difference between #1 and #2 is invisible in the cured film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shellac.net","offers":[{"title":"1 Lb","offer_id":52328554758437,"sku":"SHL-BTN-K2-1LB","price":66.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/2 Lb","offer_id":52328554791205,"sku":"SHL-BTN-K2-HLF","price":35.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/4 Lb","offer_id":52328554823973,"sku":"SHL-BTN-K2-QTR","price":19.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/kusmi-2-button-lac-hero.jpg?v=1779970461"},{"product_id":"kusmi-super-golden-button-lac","title":"Kusmi Super Golden Button Lac","description":"\u003cp\u003eKusmi super golden button lac. The top grade of the Kusmi button line — selected for color uniformity and the warm, golden tone that gives the variety its name. The most refined button lac our partners produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost commercial shellac sold today is dewaxed flake — a 20th-century industrial product. Button lac is the older form, the one classical finishing texts describe. The wax is part of the structure, not an impurity to be removed. The buttons are still produced by hand in small operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuper golden is the grade for the work where the shellac itself contributes to the visual character of the finish — fine furniture, instrument bodies, restoration where the warmth of the period-correct shellac is part of what is being preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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