Paint & Colour Mixing / A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds

by Arthur Seymour Jennings

Pollard Oak.

—Tint one hundred pounds of white lead with twenty-seven pounds of French ochre, four pounds of burnt umber, and three and three-quarter pounds medium Venetian red.

Pitch Pine.

—Tint sixty pounds of white lead with half pound medium Venetian red, and quarter pound of French ochre.

Italian Walnut.

—One pound of French ochre mixed with ten pounds of pure white lead and four ounces of burnt umber and four ounces medium Venetian red give this ground.

Knotted Oak.

—Sixty pounds of white lead, nine pounds of French ochre, and three and half pounds burnt umber.

Rosewood and Dark Mahogany.

—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.