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Before the advent of chemical and aniline colors, vegetable colors were extensively used, especially for stains and dyes. Some were made from decayed vegetation found in swamps—Vandyke brown was one of these. Brunswick black is a vegetable color made from charcoal secured by burning twigs and vines. Walnut hulls, oak tree bark (tan bark) and some of the transparent lake colors used by automobile painters are of vegetable origin.