Kusmi Super Golden Button Lac

Kusmi 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.

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.

Super 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.

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