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Rose Colored Dye for Wood

Monier produces a fine pink or rose-color on 2839. To Dye Veneers Yellow. A wood of cellulose, especially that of the ivory solution of 1 part picric acid in 60 water, nut, by immersing it first in a solution of with the addition of so much ammonia as to iodide of potassium, 14 ounces per pint of become perceptible to the smell, dyes veneers TO STAIN WOOD. yellow, which color is not in the least affected quart; dry and polish as before. Or: Logby subsequent varnishing. Before dyeing, wood, 1 part; water, 8 parts. Make a decocthe veneers require the preparatory treatment tion and apply it to the wood; when dry, given in No. 2837. give it 2 or 3 coats of the following varnish:

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