Patination Recipes

From David M Bowman [1]

Cold

Apple Green

3 oz cupric chloride

1 pint water

Hot

Blue Green

200 grams cupric nitrate

2 pints water

Red Copper

on Copper only

1 Tbsp Borax

1/2 cup water

brush on, then heat

White

1 heaping Tbsp bismuth nitrate

1 heaping Tbsp titanium dioxide

1 heaping Tbsp stannic oxide

1 liters water

Mottled

Sawdust burial

50 g amonium chloride

50 g salt

150 ml ammonia

3 liters water