Composition for representing Animals.
22. Composition for Representing Animals and other Devices in Fire.
Reduce some sulphur to an impalpable powder, and having with starch formed it into a paste, cover with it the figure you intend to represent on fire; the figure must be first coated over with clay, to prevent it from being burnt.
When the figure has been covered with this paste, sprinkle it a little, while still moist, with pulverised gunpowder; and when the whole is perfectly dry, arrange some small matches on the principal parts of it, that the fire may be speedily communicated to it on all sides.
By the same method may be formed festoons, garlands, and other ornaments, the flowers of which might be imitated by fire of different colours, and arranged on any plastered architecture.