Effect
The Dyeing Handkerchiefs
Harlan Tarbell · The Tarbell Course, 1926
- Time
- 13 min read + 10 min practice
- Materials
- In the library
- Prerequisites
- 1 sleight, in the library
This course would hardly seem complete unless I taught you this favorite magical effect of dyeing handkerchiefs in a paper tube.
Performer shows a sheet of paper and makes a tube from it. He pushes a white silk through tube to show that it is empty. Again he pushes the white silk through the tube, and it comes out of the other end dyed pink. Stating that the dyeing process is a little too weak, he puts the pink silk through the tube and brings it out of the other end a bright red.
Magician then picks up two more white silks, which he puts through the tube, one at a time. The first comes out green and the second one blue. The tube is then unrolled and shown empty.
How it is done
The method, 43 drawings and all it needs, inside the library.
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