Wood Dyeing
<id>p076r_1</id>
<head>Making <m>Wood</m> Green</head>
<ab>
Take one quart of <m>white vinegar</m>, one ounce of green, and one ounce of <m>rock alum</m>. Mix them together and pour all your ingredients into a <m>leaded</m> pot over fire without taking any air. Then put your pot in <m>manure</m> for 15 days, after which time remove and boil your materials for three hours.</ab>
AND, since Emilie and I will already be making varnish and aspic oil:
<id>p076r_4</id>
<head>For <sup>Making</sup> Purple <m>Wood</m></head>
<ab>
Take one quart of <m>urine</m> and one ounce of <m>alum</m> and ten drams of <m>sal ammoniac</m> and one <sup>dram</sup> of lacquer, then do as previously described.</ab>
There are a number of other wood dyeing recipes on the same page(s) as p076r_1 and p076r_4 (different color dyes with almost identical preparation) and throughout the manuscript. It would be fairly easy to try out other recipes on p076r since the colorant added to the pot is essentially the only difference between these recipes. Additionally, these were some of the other wood-dyeing recipes I found:
<id>p075v_1</id>
<head>Making grey <m>wood</m></head>
<ab>One must take three demi-sestiers of <m>iron</m> filings per 18 deniers of <m>rock alum</m>, and for as much <supp>18 deniers</supp> <m>green copperas</m> for six deniers of <m>verdigris</m>, pitch and a quart of <m>currier water</m>; and if you can’t find any, use <m>rainwater</m> [blank] of a slight degree. </ab>
and
<id>p078r_3</id>
<head>To make green <m>wood</m></head>
<ab>Take very strong <m>vinegar</m>, <m>salt</m>, and <m>rainwater</m>, and mix it together with <m>verdigris</m>, and put it with your <m>wood</m> in a new earthenware vessel, and lay it in some very warm <m>horse dung</m> for eight or nine days.</ab>