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Wallet revisited

Here's a minor variation on the Wallet that's included in the Diagrams section of my site. The original was from an A4 rectangle, whereas...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nundo Grabbit

It’s been a busy month, and the new blog article I’ve been preparing is taking longer than expected, so just to keep things going I’m...

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...

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...