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+ | Thread and hair have been used as a method for animation, suspension and levitation for centuries, in both the West and East. Explanations of early tricks using a strand of fine hair from a woman to cause a blown egg or coin to move, and to suspend a coin in the air are given in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in // | ||
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+ | Japanese and Chinese conjurers used hair and strands extracted the cocoons of silk worms in a variety of ways. The head-to-floor double anchor arrangement is described in several nineteenth-century Japanese books. Various objects are used: paper cut-outs and folded figures, chopsticks and even some heavier items, such as fans and bowls (the latter may have been lightweight fekes). | ||
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+ | The old Japanese texts referred to the effects created as “dancing”, | ||
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+ | One of the earliest Japanese descriptions of tricks done with thread is in // | ||
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