Light Jethwa Button Lac
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Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
Light Jethwa button lac. A pale button from the Jethwa harvest — the light counterpart to our Jethwa Dark, in the same wax-containing, cottage-produced button form.
Most 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.
Where Jethwa Dark runs deep and rich — the grade for walnut, dark hardwoods, and finishes where the shellac adds color — Light Jethwa is the pale end of the same harvest. The dry button is noticeably lighter; the family is the same. It sits alongside the Kusmi buttons as a pale, period-correct shellac for work where you want the wood to carry the color.
Sourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.
