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              Another Red for dying Wood.
   TAKE rasped Brasil-wood, and boil it until you see it of
 a fin6 red do1our; then strain it fhtoigh a linei cloth.
   rThe wood you, design to dy, colotr first over with af.
 froA yellow  and after it is dsy, strike it over with the  d
 colour, uifttil It is deep enough; then polish it with a
-tooth. If you pvt a little alum to the Brasil colaur, it WW
turn to a browm.
               To tk Figures vptn Wood.
   TAxFz melted tallow, and, havinig your table or board
 of wood ready, form with it flowers, or what else you
 will, upon it; then, with a coloured water, boiled with
 vitriol, nitre and alum, cover the board, over the tallow;
 let it stand, or repeat it, until the colour pleases you. In
 this manner, you may marble, or cloud, your wood, as
 pleases you.
                  To Marble upon Wood.
   TAXE the whites of eggs, and beat thein up until you
aft *rite or draw therewith ; then with a pencil, or fea-
thor, draw what Veins you please upon the wood; after it
it dried and hardened fot two hours, take quickime, and
thbl it well together with witte; and with a brush, or pen-
cil, paint the w trod all over; after it is thoroughly dry,
tub it with a strubbing.brush, so that both the lime and
the whites of the eggs may come off together; then r b
it with a linen rag, until it is smooth and fine; after which,
you may hyofter a thit varnish, and you will have a i
farble wood, Or,
  (6ririd White-4ead, or, tha1k, together with water, upon
a marble very fine; then mix it up with the whites ofwell-
beaten eggs, wherewith paint, or marble, as you think
                                                 proper;
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