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Hair, of women and children, is coloured with fimple brown
olcer, and heightened with mafticote ; the fame in the Hair of
men, only making it fadder or lighter as the life requires.
Hair, which is black, may be coloured with foot or lamp-black,
but it will abide no heightening.
Children's Hair is fometimes laid with brown oker and white,
and heightened with the fame, and fometimes with alum.
Sometimes alfo it is done with light oker, and deepened with
brown oker, and heightened with mafticote fimple.
Old womens Hair is coloured with brown oker and black,
heightened with brown oker and white.
Grey Hairs, are coloured with white, black, and biftre; and
finiihed with the fame mixture, but ftronger, heightening the
lights with a very pale blue and white.
But the matter of the greateft importance is to foften the work,
to run the tints into one another, as well as the Hair on and
about the face into the flefh, taking efpecial care that you work,
not dry or hard, and that the outlines of the flefh be not cut.
You mud accuftom yourfelf to mix with white, but juft as
you want more or lefs of it; for the fecond colouring muft be
always a little deeper than your fir ft, except it be for foftening.
The various colourings may be eafily produced, by taking
more or lefs red, blue, yellow, or biftre, whether for the firft co-
louring or for finifhing.
The colouring for women fhould be bluifh, for children a lit-
tle red, both frefh and gay; and for the men it fhould incline
to yellow.
Of dying Hair colours.
I. To dye HAIR colours. Take water a fufficient quantity,
alum three pounds, with which alum twenty yards of broad-
cloth j and after which make it of a bright yellow with fuftic.
Then take water a fufficient quantity, nut-galls in powder two
pounds, madder in powder four ounces ; let it boil an hour,
then take it out and cool it; after which put in copperas eight
ounces, making it boil 3 put in your cloth, handle it well about
a quarter of an hour ; take it out and cool it, if it is not fad
enough ; put it in again, for, the oftener you take it out and put
it in, the fadder it will be.
■Z. Another Hair colour. Take water a fufficient quantity,
alum three pounds; enter twenty yards of broad-cloth, boil it
three hours; take it out and wafh it well, and make it a bright
yellow. Take nut-galls eight ounces, madder four ounces made
fmall, put them into your cauldron, and let them boil; enter your
cloth and handle it well; boil it one hour, then take it out and
cool it, add to the former things copperas eight ounces; let it
Hair, of women and children, is coloured with fimple brown
olcer, and heightened with mafticote ; the fame in the Hair of
men, only making it fadder or lighter as the life requires.
Hair, which is black, may be coloured with foot or lamp-black,
but it will abide no heightening.
Children's Hair is fometimes laid with brown oker and white,
and heightened with the fame, and fometimes with alum.
Sometimes alfo it is done with light oker, and deepened with
brown oker, and heightened with mafticote fimple.
Old womens Hair is coloured with brown oker and black,
heightened with brown oker and white.
Grey Hairs, are coloured with white, black, and biftre; and
finiihed with the fame mixture, but ftronger, heightening the
lights with a very pale blue and white.
But the matter of the greateft importance is to foften the work,
to run the tints into one another, as well as the Hair on and
about the face into the flefh, taking efpecial care that you work,
not dry or hard, and that the outlines of the flefh be not cut.
You mud accuftom yourfelf to mix with white, but juft as
you want more or lefs of it; for the fecond colouring muft be
always a little deeper than your fir ft, except it be for foftening.
The various colourings may be eafily produced, by taking
more or lefs red, blue, yellow, or biftre, whether for the firft co-
louring or for finifhing.
The colouring for women fhould be bluifh, for children a lit-
tle red, both frefh and gay; and for the men it fhould incline
to yellow.
Of dying Hair colours.
I. To dye HAIR colours. Take water a fufficient quantity,
alum three pounds, with which alum twenty yards of broad-
cloth j and after which make it of a bright yellow with fuftic.
Then take water a fufficient quantity, nut-galls in powder two
pounds, madder in powder four ounces ; let it boil an hour,
then take it out and cool it; after which put in copperas eight
ounces, making it boil 3 put in your cloth, handle it well about
a quarter of an hour ; take it out and cool it, if it is not fad
enough ; put it in again, for, the oftener you take it out and put
it in, the fadder it will be.
■Z. Another Hair colour. Take water a fufficient quantity,
alum three pounds; enter twenty yards of broad-cloth, boil it
three hours; take it out and wafh it well, and make it a bright
yellow. Take nut-galls eight ounces, madder four ounces made
fmall, put them into your cauldron, and let them boil; enter your
cloth and handle it well; boil it one hour, then take it out and
cool it, add to the former things copperas eight ounces; let it