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To Stain or Dye Wood Black.

Boil Logwood in Water or Vinegar, and two or three

times Brush or Stain your Wood with it when very hot, then take Nut-Galls and Copperas, bruise them well, and boil them in Water, and with it Wash or Stain your Wood so often till it be a perfect Black, or rather steep it in the hot Liquor if you can put it in, and the Dye will penetrate the better.

To Dye or Stain Wood for Inlaying of Flowers or other things in Ca∣binets.

Get moist new Horse-Dung, and squeeze out the moisture through a Cloth, put it into se∣veral small Vessels fit for your purpose, and dissolve Gum A∣rabick, and Roach Allom, each the quantity of a Walnut, and with these mix Reds, Greens, Blues, or any Colour that is sutable to the work, stir them

often three or four 〈…〉〈…〉 then take your Wood, particularly Pear-tree for VVhite, cut into the thickness of half-crowns, or so much as will suffice any Inlayed work, and in a square or length, according to your desire, boil up the Liquors or Colours very hot, and put in the VVood till the Colour has well taken; some indeed you may take out sooner, that the Colour being less strong, may the better agree with your par∣ticoloured Flowers, Shading and the like.

To Dye or Stain, Ivory, Bone or Horn Red.

Soak fine Lime about twelve hours in fair Rain VVater, then pour off the VVater well from the settling through a Linnen Cloth, and to each Pint put

half an ounce of Rasped Brasil wood, and having boiled your materials in Allom water, boil it in this, and it will give a cu∣rious tincture.

To Stain Horn, Bone, Wood or Ivo∣ry Green.

Prepare your materials, by first boiling in Allom-water, then grind the common thick Verdigrise, or Spanish Green, a moderate quantity, adding half as much Sal-Armoniack, and put them into the sharpest VVine Vinegar, as also the materials you intend to Stain, and keep them there hot till they have taken a good tincture.

To Stain or Dye, Horn, Box or Ivory a curious Black.

To do this, put small pieces of Brasil VVood into Aqua∣fortis, and so continue them, till they appear green, then wash well your materials in them, and boil Logwood in VVater, into which put them whilst they are warm, and in a little time the Ivory, &c. will be of a curious Black, so that being Pollished it will look like Ebony or Japan, and if you would have any part for Flow∣ers, or the like remain white, draw them before staining with Turpentine Varnish, and the black will not touch them, and afterward you may hetch them, and clear up with Oil and Lamp-black.