Green Stain

Strong vinegar, 3 pints; best verdigris, 4 oz. ground fine; sap green, ½ ounce; mixed together.

Black Stains For Wood

1. Drop a little sulphuric acid into a small quantity of water; brush over the wood, and hold it to the fire; it will be a fine black, and receive a good polish. 2. For a beautiful black on wood, nothing can exceed the black Japan mentioned under Tinsmith's Department. Apply two coats; after which, varnish and polish it. 3. To 1 gallon vinegar, add a quarter of a pound of iron-rust; let it stand for a week; then add a pound of dry lamp-black, and three quarters of a pound of copperas; stir it up for a couple of days. Lay on five or six coats with a sponge, allowing it to dry between each; polish with linseed oil and a soft woolen rag, and it will look like ebony. Incomparable for iron work, ships' guns, shot, etc. 4. Vinegar, ½ gallon; dry lampblack, ½ lb.; iron-rust sifted, 3 lbs.; mix, and let stand for a week. Lay three coats of this on hot, and then rub with linseed oil, and you will have a fine deep black. 5. Add to the above stain nut-galls, 1 oz.; logwood chips, ½ lb.; copperas, ¼ lb,; lay on three coats; oil well, and you will have a black stain that will stand any kind of weather, and is well adapted for ships' combings, etc. 6. Logwood chips, 1 lb.; Brazil wood, ¼ lb.; bail for 1½ hours in one gallon water. Brush the wood with this decoction while hot; make a decoction of nutgalls, by simmering gently, for three or four days, a quarter of a pound of the galls in 2 quarts water; give the wood three coats, and, while wet, lay on a solution of sulphate of iron (2 oz. to a quart.) and, when dry, oil or varnish. 7. Give three coats with a solution of copper-filings in aquafortis, and repeatedly brush over with the logwood decoction until the greenness of the copper is destroyed. 8. Boil ½ lb. logwood chips in 2 quarts water; add an ounce of pearl-ash, and apply hot with a brush. Then take 2 quarts of the logwood decoction, and ½ oz. of verdigris, and the same of copperas; strain, and throw in ½ lb. of iron-rust. Brush the work well with this, and oil.

Rose-Wood Stain, Light Shade

Equal parts of logwood and red-wood chips; boil well in water sufficient to make a strong stain; apply it to the furniture while hot, 2 or 3 coats, according to the depth of color desired.

Rose Pink Stain And Varnish

Put 1 oz. of potash in 1 qt. water, with red senders, 1½ oz.; extract the color from the wood, and strain; then add gum shellac, ½ 1b.; dissolve it by a brisk lire. Used upon logwood stain for rosewood imitation.

Blue Stain For Wood

1. Dissolve copper-filings In aquafortis, brush the wood with it, and then go over the work with a hot solution of pearlash (2 oz. to 1 pint water) till it assumes a perfectly blue color. 2. Bod 1 lb. of indigo, 2 lbs. wood, and 3 oz. alum, in 1 gallon water; brush well over until thoroughly stained.

Imitation Of Botany Bay Wood

Boil ½ lb. of French berries (the unripe berries of the Rhamnus infectorius) in 2 quarts water till of a deep yellow, and, while boiling hot, give two or three coats to the work. If a deeper color is desired, give a coat of logwood decoction over the yellow. When marly dry. form the grain with No. 8 black stain, used hot; and, when dry, rust and varnish.