Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Furniture. [ARTICLE]

Furniture.

The highly polished black furniture so much in request for drawing-room, suites is prepared as follows: Smooth, wood worked into the necessary fqrm, is painted over with camphor water, and then with a solution of sulphate-of 1 iron and nutgall; these penetrate and. give a black stain. The polisher then takes a piece of smooth, fine-grained charcoal free from grit, and rubs it intothe furniture, following his work with a flannel soaked in linseed oil ajid turpentine, the result of which is a beautiful polish, and wood resembling ebon..