The handling in this version is very clever because you actually do see a knot being tied and formed. Once the knots have all come off you then show three holes in the silk. The effect is you tie a knot in the silk and then it slides off, you can do this once, twice or three times. All you need to do is cut out one, two or three holes in the silk depending on how many knots you want to have come off the silk. The knots themselves have some type of foam inside which makes them so much easier to use. You receive a 24” red silk with three special knots. The effect was created in the 1970s by Pavel and then passed on to Daune Lafflin who shared John Blake’s methodology with Jeff McBride who has now released it with permission. The knots off silk has long been a classic although very rarely seen. As for me, I now have two because it’s going BACK in to the act. Having performed it for so long I thought it would be impossible to see a version that actually fooled me! Was I mistaken! Jeff McBride has released a version that not only fooled me but also added some really nice presentational touches that I think will make this become a classic again. The only reason I stopped performing it was because the silks got worn and I lost the ‘knots.’ I never got around to replacing it. I first started performing Knots Of Silk about 20 years ago and it was a part of my opening Chaplin act for a very long time.
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