The Silk by Gonzalo Albiñana

At any moment or at any part of the act, you can take any regular silk of your choice, and make it pass through the palm of your hand, or someone else’s hand. Just like that. You can show both sides of the hand, and perform it as many times and as quickly or slowly as you want. Then, you pull off the silk, show every part of it and your skin too, because everything can be examined. The silk can be used before and after for other effects.
You can do it close up, parlour or stage performances. It’s a hit for kids and comedy magic, but you can make any kind of presentation with it, even for more “dark” presentations, or hypnosis.
Everything is included and ready to go, a video about the history and origins of the tricks throughout magic literature, handlings ideas and presentations, sample silk, gimmick and accessories. Use any silk, any size of silk, from 12 inches (30 cm), to diamond cut silks, even 40 inches (90 cm) or similar materials like ribbons, wool…

✔ Perform anywhere, no restrictions
✔ You can adapt it to any kind of silk or presentation
✔ You start and end clean
✔ Use the silk for other effects
✔ Perfect for parlour and stage
✔ No clothing restrictions.

Origins
Gonzalo Albiñana has been thinking, presenting and developing this effect through the last fifteen years. Seven years ago, he started to show it to different magicians and received the Geni D’Or Award for Creativity with it. Later, in 2019, he competed in Spain’s National Congress and won the Parlour Magic Trophy. Now, he is ready to share it with the magic community and see what effects other magicians can make out of it.

Inspired by the work of Al Bach, Alexander de Cova and a lot of old masters and magicians of the past, The Silk is the development of the kind of magic that Gonzalo prefers. A clear plot, simple to understand, beautiful and amazing to watch, with a lot of room for the performer to develop his material and character.

The idea started the day a kid, in the middle of a silk vanishing sequence, started to shout out something about a plastic finger? So Gonzalo started to develop the idea. After a lot of trials and errors, different effects, solutions and prototypes, the combination of several ideas, like the Arrow and Ribbon thru Body by Chung Ling Soo, The Silk thru the spots card of Alexander de Cova, and, different other approaches mentioned in the tutorial, The Silk, came to life, and became the opening of almost each one of his shows.

Difficulty: Intermediate
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