Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic - Vol. 1–3 - Richards Estate

Contents Overview

Volume 1 covers foundational material across roughly ten chapters:

• The Romantic Story of Silk
• How to Dye Your Own Silks
• Methods of Folding Silks
• Production methods (single silks and quantity productions, with and without apparatus)
• Vanishes, Changes, and Transpositions

Volume 2 (seven chapters) includes:

• Penetrations
• Color Changes
• Color Changing Silks
• Silk Dyeing
• Reel Magic
• Reel-Less Magic
• Twentieth Century Silks

Volume 3 (eight chapters) includes:

• Sympathetic Silks
• Blendo Effects
• “Naughty” Silks
• Silks and Eggs
• Soup Plates and Silks
• Silks and Candles
• Openers
• Japanese Hank Box (Jap Hank Box)

Across the set there are hundreds of effects (often cited as over 350 per volume in later descriptions), practical methods, apparatus discussions, and contributions or credits from many other magicians (Tarbell, Hugard, Abbott, and others). The books go well beyond pure silk tricks and touch on related props and techniques useful to general conjuring.

Heavy foxing, see photos.