>I have been begging for help
>on this site to locate
>a lime supplier. I did
>not get many answers:(

I do not know how I missed this post!

Hi Everybody, this lime problem - is a problem! I do not know anyone in US who sells it at a lesser price than $100 per 10kg. I import my from Italy in large butches, each project at the time. I order more and use the leftovers later in the studio. However I cannot order small quantities - shipping is too expensive. For each workshop I order a shipment and students can get it from me at a very fare price later - it is a part of the workshop benefits.

I can not retail lime - possible shipping and handling charges will be too big and also I do not have the time to do it myself or market to hire salesman. Then again someone has to process the order, pack it and ship it.

Workshop students are treated as a studio members and my studio does "shipping and packing". Also i order based on the number of
students.

This did not help much did it?

I guess what I wanted to say is - I can only get lime "wholesale"
for a group of people so my studio can pack it and ship it in one (figuratively speaking) day on prepaid orders.

It must be a minimum of 400 - 500 kg order to make it work - if we had 10 people ordering 40 kg each. It would be a minimum of $220-250 per person + shipping cost from my studio in LA. It takes 1-2 weeks to get the shipment in.
Workshop students are getting lime for less than that or do not have to wait for 3 weeks.

(sinopia.com/kremer pigments - same ammount will be $400 + shipping. I also do not like their lime - bought some to test)

So if you have ten people that are ready to prepay the order...

Ilia Anossov
http://www.truefresco.com/workshop