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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Maria 50, post: 11075344, member: 95549&quot;]Did people stained or coloured furniture in darker tones in Jacobean ages? English oak is light color wood but these antique furniture always looks dark brown, I am interested do we have&nbsp; documented that people intentionally darken the wood? If yes, what stain/color was used?</p><p>Yes, I know wood naturally darken over time, but I am only interested in documentation not someone opinion or speculation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ask this because some people claim in Jacobean ages people used only some clear oils, like linseed oil to protect the wood, so did not stained wood to look it darker but others claim&nbsp; wood was stained in darker tones intentionally even in Jacobean ages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are important parts&nbsp; that I selected&nbsp; from video about English furniture history:</p><p><br /></p><p>Antique furniture expert Arthur Negus say at:</p><p><b>watch at (31m46s - 32m07s) : </b></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MPFlpxUByOE[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>watch at (29m15s - 30m15s):</b></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MPFlpxUByOE[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>watch at (40m14s - 40m35s): </b></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MPFlpxUByOE[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>How would you interpret Arthur words, does he want to say that wood wasn&#039;t stained in darker color, so wood was in original natural color in Jacobean ages? If wood was stained darker originally, we can still have these worn out color parts, so worn out color ares cant be proof that furniture wasn&#039;t stained..</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(I also find here something about stain, but no related to Jacobean era, this I think refer to crica 1800)</p><p><b>watch at(39m40s -42m35s): </b></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]r7CLxeN_yMw[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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