Silken Sorcery

You will find 143 magnificent and entertaining uses of silks and handkerchiefs. Sleights, tricks and the famous Stillwell Silk Act are explained in detail with 90 illustrations. Jean Hugard details vanishing methods, production techniques, color changes, knots, and flourishes. He also describes how to care for your silks to keep them in great shape for a long time.

1st edition, 1937 Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1974, Dover Publications, New York; 85 pages.

5. Introduction
5. Chapter I. Methods of Folding Silks for Production
10. Chapter II. Sleights for Manipulating Silks Without Accessories
13. Chapter III. Methods for Producing a Single Silk
25. Chapter IV. The Production of a Number of Silks
31. Chapter V. Various Methods of Vanishing Silks
38. Chapter VI. Dyeing the Silks
44. Chapter VII. Twentieth Century Silk
48. Chapter VIII. Useful Accessories
52. Chapter IX. Liaison Tricks
53. Chapter X. Tricks with Silks
64. Chapter XI. Knots, Ties and Flourishes
81. Chapter XII. The Stillwell Silk Act
84. Patter Suggestions
85. Final Suggestions

word count: 35589 which is equivalent to 142 standard pages of text