Bysakhi Button Lac

Bysakhi button lac. A wax-containing button-form shellac, hand-refined in the cottage tradition, period-correct for French polishing and conservation work.

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.

Bysakhi sits among the lighter button lacs in the lineup — a middle-tone shellac that builds without dominating the wood beneath it.

Sourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.