A Fine Black

Put 6 lbs. of logwood chips into your copper, with as many veneers as it will hold without pressing too tight; fill it with water, let it boil slowly for about 3 hours, then add ½ lb. of powdered verdigris, ½ lb. copperas, bruised gall-nuts, 4oz.; fill the copper up with vinegar, as the water evaporates; let it boil gently two hours each day till the wood is dyed through.

A Fine Blue

Put oil of vitrol, 1 lb., and 4 oz. of the best powdered indigo, in a glass bottle. Set it in a glazed earthen pan, as it will ferment. Now put your veneers into a copper or stone trough; till it rather more than one-third with water, and add as much of the vitriol and indigo (stirring it about) as will make line blue, testing it with a piece of white paper or wood. Let the venters remain till the dye has struck through. Keep the solution of indigo a few weeks before using it; this improves the color.

Fink Yellow

Reduce 4 lbs. of the root of barberry to dust by sawing, which put in a copper or brass trough: add turmeric, 4 oz.; water, 4 gals.; then put in as many white holly veneers as the liquor will cover. Boil them together for three hours, often turning them. When cool, add aquafortis, 2 oz., and the dye will strike through much sooner.

Bright Green

Proceed as in the previous receipt to produce a yellow; but, instead of aquafortis, add as much of the vitriolated Indigo (see above, under blue dye) as will produce the desired color.

Bright Red

Brazil dust, 2 lbs.; add water, 4 gals. Put in as many veneers as the liquid will cover; boil them for 3 hours, then add alum, 2 oz.; aquafortis, 2 oz.; and keep it take-warm until it has struck through.

Purple

To 2 lbs. of chip logwood and ½ lb. Brazil dust, add 4 gals, of water; and after putting in your veneers, boil for 8 hours; then add pearlash, 6 oz., and alum, 2 oz.; let them boil for 2 or 3 hours every day till the color has struck through.

Orange

Take the veneers out of the above yellow dye, and while still wet and saturated, transfer them to the bright red dye till the color penetrates throughout.

Gilders' Pickle

Alum and common salt, each 1 oz.; nitre, 2 oz.; dissolved in water, ½ pt. Used to impart a rich yellow color to gold surfaces. It is best used largely diluted with water.