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David Todd Inner circle 2328 Posts |
Another essential reference for making your own flowers is 'Victory Bouquet' by Francis B. Martineau . (Martineau is best known for his amazing artistic contribution to the three-volume Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic for which he drew thousands of illustrations and hand-lettered the entire text.)
https://www.lybrary.com/victory-bouquet-p-243.html This is Martineau's method of making a large bouquet (complete with long stems) of spring flowers , but this book would also be enormously useful to anyone wanting to make individual spring flowers for the traditional Flowers from Paper Cone production. $2.00 from Lybrary.com for an e-book (PDF) version. |
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David Todd Inner circle 2328 Posts |
Another historical image of Spring Flowers for anyone researching how to make their own. This is scanned from Illustrated Magic by Ottokar Fischer. It would be nice to see this in color , but even in the black & white photo we can see how the inner part of the petals have a different color, so it gives a nice effect of having more realism than a single color petal.
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On Jan 18, 2022, David Todd wrote: David, I just got back to this thread after several years. I rarely visit the Café these days (social media overload, I guess). I'm sorry for not acknowledging your appreciation for the tutorial I posted on Facebook. So please accept a very long overdue thank you! I am also enjoying the additional information you are supplying, especially the historical references. Cheers! ~michael
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hugmagic Inner circle 7655 Posts |
Marshall used 100% rag paper with a cockle finish (think Onionskin). It came in various pastel colors of yellow, pink, blue, pale green, and red. He would then dye one end of the flower with one color of dye and use a second color on the other end. He made all of the flowers for Neil Foster's zombie. He also had many varieties of blooms. He sold the spring flower business with the silk business to the Sequins in the 1960's. They ran it a few years quit.
When I started making them, I hunted the paper. I finally found and old guy in NJ who remembered the paper. It had not be been made in over 40 years. It was made by a cigarette paper company.
Richard E. Hughes, Hughes Magic Inc., 352 N. Prospect St., Ravenna, OH 44266 (330)296-4023
www.hughesmagic.com email-hugmagic@raex.com Write direct as I will be turning off my PM's. |
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David Todd Inner circle 2328 Posts |
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On Feb 7, 2022, hugmagic wrote: Thank you for the information, Richard. (too bad the specific rag paper that Marshall used is not available anymore , but it's still good information to know). Do any surviving examples of the Marshall spring flowers exist ? I would be interested to see photographs if you have any. I used the Ask Alexander database to search through Marshall's advertisements in Sphinx and Linking Ring (among others), but could not find any photos, only line drawing illustrations. (it's possible I overlooked some ads with photos; even so I expect any ads with photos from that era would be in black & white). The other ones I've searched in vain to find photographs are the Madblood Creations spring flowers, which were advertised as being true-to-life, in a great variety of shapes and sizes. The only photo I could find is for a Madblood item called "Mad Hat Super Production" , which shows their spring Roses. ------- One thing I came across in my research was David Devant's advice on using Spring Flowers: Quote:
"Spring flowers, surely the most misused articles in the whole gamut of a conjurer's apparatus, when in doubt the conjurer seems to produce a hundred bedraggled spring flowers, in the wrong places and under the wrong circumtances. |
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David Todd Inner circle 2328 Posts |
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On Feb 5, 2022, Michael Baker wrote: Hi, Michael - Good to see you here again. I guess we're all burned out with too many social media options; I know how you feel ! Here is all the information I've collected so far: https://tinyurl.com/springflowersdoc |
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hugmagic Inner circle 7655 Posts |
Yes, I have some originals that I will need to take photos of.
Richard E. Hughes, Hughes Magic Inc., 352 N. Prospect St., Ravenna, OH 44266 (330)296-4023
www.hughesmagic.com email-hugmagic@raex.com Write direct as I will be turning off my PM's. |
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On Feb 8, 2022, David Todd wrote: Great info. I tried to share my PDF tutorial here, but the Café system says the file is too big.
~michael baker
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Jean André New user Metz 65 Posts |
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On Feb 9, 2022, Michael Baker wrote: I think to share a PDF or other large file the best method is to share it on Google Drive or Dropbox and post the link here. Both Google Drive and Dropbox offer a certain amount of free storage for file hosting (photos, documents) . Dropbox up to 2GB of storage for free. Google is up to 15GB free. I think you can also publish on Lybrary.com . Most self-published works on Lybrary cost a certain price, but I have noticed some e-publications there offered for no cost. Or even if you only charged a nominal fee of $1.00 for your manuscript , that would return a bit on your investment of time for putting together the tutorial. . . |
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Tukaram Loyal user Iloilo, Philippines 227 Posts |
Quote: You made that FB group very hard to join... want to click the bot blocking answers... so bad... Those are the best answers, man. ????
On May 31, 2016, Michael Baker wrote: |
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B.W. McCarron Loyal user Seattle, WA USA 262 Posts |
I'm having difficulty finding this tutorial. A FB search of this discussion group does not bring up the OP by name, or by the subject of "spring" or "flower." Did some kind soul happen to keep a copy of it? Thanks in advance if you can help me.
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