The Paper Ladder and Paper Tree are classic paper stunts found in almost every modern book on paper recreations. Both are made from a...

After seeing my last post devoted to Robert Harbin books, renowned origami artist and author Nick Robinson suggested that rather than...

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...

The Testament de Jérôme Sharp (1786) by Henri Decremps was one of the first books to provide detailed descriptions of card tricks and...

Here’s an interesting little “paper recreation” which I’ve come across in two old books – an anonymous manuscript called La Magie du Pont...

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...

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...

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...

This is one of the first paper stunts that caught my attention when I started going through old magic books – probably because it often...

Apart from origami my other main interest is magic, more particularly close-up magic, and especially particularly card magic. I’ve been...