A 150-year-old Wallet Fold
This post is about a traditional design for a folded Wallet or Purse that's at least 150 years old and appears in many of the classic old...
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Edwin Corrie
Aug 31, 2023
Vintage origami books
After seeing my last post devoted to Robert Harbin books, renowned origami artist and author Nick Robinson suggested that rather than...
Edwin Corrie
Jul 4, 2023
Robert Harbin's books on origami and magic
Robert Harbin (1909-1978) was a hugely important figure in the worlds of both origami and magic, and really needs no introduction from me...
Edwin Corrie
May 29, 2023
Folded Seed Packet
This is an old traditional fold, possibly of German origin, which is usually referred to as a Seed Packet. As with a lot of traditional...
Edwin Corrie
Apr 5, 2023
Knife through Handkerchief
In two of my first blog posts just over a year ago I talked about a couple of very early paper tricks, one in Giovanni Battista della...
Edwin Corrie
Nov 26, 2022
Musical Cryptography Fold-In
The Testament de Jérôme Sharp (1786) by Henri Decremps was one of the first books to provide detailed descriptions of card tricks and...
Edwin Corrie
Oct 24, 2022
Playing Card Chain
When I did the Paper Buckle post last time I thought it would be nice to fill it out a bit by mentioning the related idea of the Playing...
Edwin Corrie
Sep 24, 2022
Paper Buckle and Paper Chain
Here’s an interesting little “paper recreation” which I’ve come across in two old books – an anonymous manuscript called La Magie du Pont...
Edwin Corrie
Aug 31, 2022
Double Diamond and Artful Letter Closures updates
This monthly posting schedule is proving quite hard to stick to. I do have a new article which is almost complete, but for now this is...
Edwin Corrie
Jul 30, 2022
Double Diamond
It's the end of the month again and I haven't managed to create a new post, so I'm going to fill in with a couple of simple Diamond...
Edwin Corrie
Jun 27, 2022
Artful letter closures from 1831
This is heavily revised and updated version of my original post, with various corrections and additions made in the light of information...
Edwin Corrie
Apr 16, 2022
Edge dropping
Since today is Easter Sunday, I'll take this chance to draw attention to my Easter Chick model on the Diagrams page. He's actually been...
Edwin Corrie
Mar 12, 2022
The Buddha Papers
A couple of posts ago we looked at two tricks using folded paper in The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) by Reginald Scot, under the title...
Edwin Corrie
Jan 14, 2022
To Transform by Folding Paper
First of all, Happy New Year to my readers (yes, both of you). I've been struggling to learn how to use this blog thing, as well as...
Edwin Corrie
Dec 5, 2021
The Three Scrolls
This is one of the first paper stunts that caught my attention when I started going through old magic books – probably because it often...
Edwin Corrie
Nov 6, 2021
Paperfolding in old magic books
Apart from origami my other main interest is magic, more particularly close-up magic, and especially particularly card magic. I’ve been...
Edwin Corrie
Oct 23, 2021
Paper Recreations
I’ve always enjoyed so-called “pure” origami, or simple folding without using scissors or glue. But there’s a whole other area of odd...
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