The art of making fireworks ; to which is added, the history of Guy Fawks and gunpowder plot.

Date:
[1820?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of making fireworks ; to which is added, the history of Guy Fawks and gunpowder plot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I THE of • . To make Touch-paper* Dissolve, in some spirits of wine or vinegar^ a little salt petrc; then take some purple or blue paper, and wet it with the above liquor, and when dry it will be tit for use. When you paste this paper on any of your works, take care that the paste does not touch that part which is to burn. The method of using this paper is, by cutting it into slips,1 long enough to go once round the mouth of a serpent, cracker, &c. When you paste on these slips, leave a little above the mouth of the case not pasted ; then prime the cas£ witk meal powder, and twist the paper to a point, • ,' A To make Crackers. Cut some stout cart ridge paper into pieces three inches and a half broad, and one foot long; one edge of each of these pieces fold down lengthwise about three quarters of mi inch broad; 1 hen fold the double edge down a quarter of an inch, and turn the single edge back half over the double fold ; then open if, and lay all along the channel which is formed, by t he foldings of the paper, some meal powder ; then fold it over and over till all tTie paper is doubled up, rubbing it down every turn ; this being done, bend it backwards and forwards, two inches and a half, or thereabouts, at a time, as often as the paper will allow ; then hold all these folds flat and close, and with a small pinching