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Board-Work; or the Art of Wig-making, Etc. / Designed For the Use of Hairdressers and Especially of Young Men in the Trade. To Which Is Added Remarks Upon Razors, Razor-sharpening, Razor Strops, & Miscellaneous Recipes, Specially Selected. cover

Board-Work; or the Art of Wig-making, Etc. / Designed For the Use of Hairdressers and Especially of Young Men in the Trade. To Which Is Added Remarks Upon Razors, Razor-sharpening, Razor Strops, & Miscellaneous Recipes, Specially Selected.

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By Edwin Creer
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The text offers practical, trade-oriented instruction for apprentices and hairworkers, covering hair science and sourcing, tools and methods for cleaning, drying, carding, crimping and preparing human and other hairs, plus dyeing, bleaching and curling techniques. It then explains weaving and sewing methods for wefts, fronts, bandeaux, chignons, fringes and scalps, and describes knotting and mounting practices for both ladies' and gentlemen's wigs, with guidance on measurement and attachment. Appendices supply advice on razor maintenance, miscellaneous recipes, and illustrative designs to guide learners.

Egg Julep.

Egg julep, or saponaceous wash, is made as follows:—Rectified spirit, 1 pint; rose-water, 1 gallon; extract of rondeletia, ½ pint, transparent soap, ½ oz.; hay saffron, ½ drachm; shave up the soap very fine; boil it and the saffron in a quart of the rose-water; when dissolved add the remainder of the water, then the spirit, finally the rondeletia, which is used by way of perfume. After standing for two or three days it is fit for bottling. By transmitted light it is transparent; but by reflected light the liquid has a pearly and singularly wavy appearance when shaken.—Piesse.

Bay Rhum.

Tincture of bay leaves, 5 ozs.; otto of bay, 1 drachm; bicarbonate of ammonia, 1 oz.; biborate of soda (borax), 1 oz.; rose water, 1 quart. Mix and filter. Piesse says: “This is a very good hair-wash. It was first introduced in New York by those go-ahead scissors that ‘abbreviate’ the ‘crown of glory.’”

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Bay leaf otto, ½ oz.; magnesium carbonate, ½ oz.; Jamaica rum, 2 pints; alcohol, 3 pints; water, 3 pints. Triturate the ottos with the magnesium carbonate, gradually adding the other ingredients, previously mixed, and filter.—Snively.