The French perfumer teaching the several ways of extracting the odours of drugs and flowers and making all the compositions of perfumes for powder, wash-balls, essences, oyls, wax, pomatum, paste, Queen of Hungary's Rosa Solis, and other sweet waters ... : also how to colour and scent gloves and fans, together with the secret of cleansing tobacco and perfuming it for all sorts of snuff, Spanish, Roman, &c. / done into English from the original printed at Paris.

The manner of Washing Skins for Fans, and Perfuming them with Flowers.

CUT Sheep Skins Dressed, a little bigger than you design them for Fans, because you must stretch them round about the little Boards, as you'll see hereafter, then wash them so long and so often in several Waters, till the last Water is very clean, leave them after that in Water till the next day, squeeze them and dry them upon a Line; being dry, wash them in Orange-flower-water, and leave them in it till the next day, then take them out, do not squeeze them much, and hang them on a Line to dry; be careful to take them down while they are drying, because they must be dress'd as soon as they are dry, or else you'll be in danger to tear them and spoil them; then give them what Colour you please on both sides with a Spunge, then stretch them on your Frames, and dry them in the Air.

The Frames or Moulds for Fans are lit∣tle Boards, of the thickness of two Crown Peices, cut in the shape of your Fans, having points of Needles round about to stretch the Skins with. Observe that the fleshy part of the Skins must be always without.

When your Skins are dry, Perfume them as you'll find in the Receipts for Per∣fuming Skins and Gloves; and while they are upon the little Boards, rub them only with your Composition on the Fleshy side; being dry take them up to Per∣fume them with Flowers: When you design to Perfume them with Flowers, choose Perfumes where the Civet pre∣vails, or you may use other Perfumes.

Your Fans being thus Prepared, take a Box, and lay in it a bed of Flowers and a bed of Skins; continue so doing till you fill the Box with both, if you have plenty of Flowers, put fresh ones every twelve Hours, if not, every twen∣ty four Hours, do so five or six times, your Skins are well Perfumed: Orange∣flowers are the best for that use.