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1427. Paper and Parchment. Orange. Brush over with a tincture of turmeric, formed by infusing an ounce of the root in a pint of spirit of wine; let this dry, and give another coat of pearlash solution, made by dissolving two ounces of the salt in a quart of water. 1428. Paper and Parchment.Purple. i. Brush over with the expressed juice of ripe privet berries. ii. The same as for wood. 1429. Paper and Parchment.Yellow. i. Brush over with tincture of turmeric. ii. Add anatto or dragon's-blood to the tincture of turmeric, and brush over as usual. 1430. Wood. Black. i. Drop a little sulphuric acid into a small quantity of water, brush over the wood and hold to the fire; it will turn a fine black, and take a good polish. ii. Take half a gallon of vinegar, an ounce of bruised nut galls, of logwood chips and copperas each half a pound--boil well; add half an ounce of the tincture of sesquichloride of iron, formerly called the muriated tincture and brush on hot. iii. Use the stain given for ships' guns. iv. Take half a gallon of vinegar, half a pound of dry lampblack, and three pounds of iron rust, sifted. 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. v. Add to the above stain an ounce of nut galls, half a pound of log-wood chips, and a quarter of a pound of copperas; lay on three coats, oil well, and you will have a black stain that will stand any kind of weather, and one that is well suited for ships' combings, &c.