GRAINING GROUNDS.
Maple. White lead tinted with a very little vermilion and about an equal quantity of lemon chrome. Some prefer yellow ochre only, others ochre and raw umber in the proportion of four ounces ochre and one ounce umber to thirty pounds of lead.
Medium Oak. Add French ochre to white lead in the proportions of about one hundred and twenty of lead to five of ochre. Add a little burnt umber.
Mahogany, Dark. Four pounds of medium Venetian red, one pound of orange chrome yellow and one pound of burnt umber, or a little less burnt umber may be used according to the strength.
Mahogany, Light. Mix six pounds of pure white lead with one pound medium Venetian red and five ounces of burnt umber.
Light Oak and Birch. Eighty parts of white-lead to one of yellow ochre produces a good ground, but sixty pounds of white lead, half a pound of French ochre and one ounce of lemon chrome is sometimes preferred.
Dark Oak. Sixty parts of white lead and one part of golden ochre may be used, or the following mixture if preferred. Six parts of white lead, one part of French ochre, one part medium Venetian red and one part of burnt umber.
Satinwood. Mix six ounces of lemon chrome to fifteen pounds of pure white lead and add a little deep English vermilion.
Pollard Oak. Tint one hundred parts of white lead with twenty-seven parts of French ochre, four parts of burnt umber and three and three-quarter parts medium Venetian red.
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