Magic

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...