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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • FOREWORD
  • PREPARING THE PLEATED STRIPS:
    • Making the first pleated paper strip
    • Forming the basic fans
    • The fans on display - an introductory routine
  • COMBINATION FANS:
    • Turning the fans into figures
    • Methods of display
  • WITCHWOOD:
    • Making the special pleated strip
    • Black Magic in a pigmy village
  • ONE MAN AND HIS DOG:
    • Making the paper fold
    • Four men went to mow a meadow
  • THE ADVENTURES OF HIAWATHA:
    • Hiawatha's head-dress
    • Hiawatha goes fishing
    • Fighting the sea serpents
    • Writing in pictures
  • THE SCROLLS OF CONFUCIUS:
    • Four seasons in the life of a tree
  • THE ISLAND OF BIRDS:
    • Forming and shaping the pleated paper strip
    • The Owl and the Pussycat
  • THE UPSIDE-DOWN MEN:
    • Masks of tragedy and comedy
  • AH FU AND THE MAGIC FAN:
    • Using coloured papers to make three pleated strips
    • Dressing Ah Fu
    • The genie of the fan
  • SPECIAL EFFECTS AND PRESENTATIONS:
    • The Rainbow Fan
    • A lecture-style demonstration
    • A black theatre stage show
    • Chinese paper folding

Title: Pleated Paper Folding: Methods and Routines for the Amateur Performer
Author: Eric Hawkesworth
Format/Publication Date: HC:1975;1984
Publisher: A Supreme Magic Publication, Devon, UK
Language: English
Page Count: 104
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- The author says in his foreword that pleated paper folding used to be called Troublewit when it was being performed as entertainment in music halls(think Vaudeville). You get instructions for several different models, and the patter(stories) that the author uses while he is entertaining the audience with the transformations the pleated paper goes through. This was a really happy find for me, and I've never found another book like it. It is a nicely bound book with a dust jacket, and the author's directions are pretty easy to follow.

There is a cool early history of Troublewit at: THE PUBLIC PAPERFOLDING HISTORY PROJECT