This entry is part of a series for Handful of Salt about the role of technology in high end craft and design. Read the original article here.   Standardized oil paints were first sold in tubes in 1841, by Winsor Newton‘s founders from Henry Newton’s home in Rathbone Place, London. To be sure – artists had been using oil paints (and a variety of ingredients) for a very, very long time. But each artist made their own; grinding pigments then adding their own proprietary blend of secret ingredients. But then all of a sudden –