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Red Dye for Wood

To every throughout their mass. This treatment with pound of logwood chips, add 2 gallons water; soda effects a general disintegration of the put in the veneers, and boil as in the last; then add a sufficient quantity of the brightening liquid (see No. 2828), till the color is of a satisfactory tint; keep the whole as warm as you can bear your finger in it, till the color wood, whereby it becomes, in the moist state, elastic and leather-like, and ready to absorb the color; it must then, after dyeing, be dried between sheets of paper and subjected to pressure to retain its shape. has sufficiently penetrated. The logwood 2838. To Dye Veneers Black. Vechips should be picked from all foreign sub-neers treated as in last receipt and left for 24 stances with which it generally abounds, as hours in a hot decoction of logwood (1 part bark, dirt, &c.; and it is always best when logwood to 3 water), removing them after fresh cut, which may be known by its ap- the lapse of that time, and, after drying them pearing of a bright red color; for if stale, it superficially, putting them into a hot solution will look brown, and not yield so much coloring matter. of copperas (1 part copperas to 30 water), will, after 24 hours, become beautifully and completely dyed black.