How to Colour Snuff of Yellow or Red Colours.
TAKE some Oaker, Red or Yel∣low, which you will; suppose the bigness of an Egg, mix with it fine white
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.
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- 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.
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- Barbe, Simon.
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- London :: Printed for Sam. Buckley ...,
- 1696.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30869.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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Chalk to temper the Colour a little; bruise them upon a Marble Stone, with half an Ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds; being well mixt, pour to it some Water by degrees, and mix it in the mean while till it is well mix't with the Water, lay your Colour aside of the Marble; then dilute two Spoon••uls of Gum Adragant liquid; mix it with your Colour, and Grind them again, to mix them very well; pouring in the mean while Water over it: Then put the whole in an Ear∣then Pan; pour more Water, stirring it always, to the quantity of a Pint or there∣abouts. This done, take what quantity of Snuff cleansed you please, and put it in a Pan or Vessel, and pour over it your Colour, working and mixing it ve∣ry well with your Hands, making it like a Paste, not-very liquid but well soaked; leave your Snuff in the Colour till the next day; then dry it in the Sun upon Cloths, stir it as fast as it dries; being dry, prepare a Gum to Gum it, after this manner:
Bruise upon a Marble Gum Adragant dissolved in sweet Water; pour over it some Water, bruising still, and make your Gum very thin and clear; pour it in a Pan, that you may easily put some
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more Water in it; wet your Hands with that Gum, and rub your Snuff, and work it with your Hands, till it is Gumm'd every where over; then let it dry, stir∣ring it every minute. Being very dry, pass your Snuff through the finest Sieve you can find; it will at that time be fit to be Perfum'd with Flowers or any other Perfume.