Knowing The Ropes by Will Ayling

Featuring the rope magic of Edward Victor, Shigeo Takagi, and Harry Carnegie. This was part of the Supreme ‘Know How’ series written and edited by Will Ayling, which was the continuation of the famous Teach-In series by Lewis Ganson.

1st edition 1987; original 36 pages; PDF 44 pages.

4. Contents
5. Cut & Restored Rope
5. – Requirement
6. – And So To Cut
8. – The Extra Piece
8. – The Extra Loop
13. Edward Victor’s Original Cut & Restored Rope Routine
13. – The Know How
18. – Harry Carnegie’s Patter For The Edward Victor Rope Trick
21. The Off Knot
23. Rope Routine by Shigeo Takagi of Japan
23. – Apparatus
23. – Method
23. – First part – the unequal ropes
29. – Second part – the flying knot
29. – Third part – the real knot
30. – Fourth part – “Do as I do”
32. The Vishnu Rope Mystery
32. – In action
35. A Knotty Magic Routine
35. – Practice and Presentation
40. Stand-up – Scissors Linked Onto Rope
42. The Panama Rope Trick

word count: 8245 which is equivalent to 32 standard pages of text