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Francis B. Martineau
(10th March 1922 - 8th January 2012)
Canadian magician, magic illustrator and author. 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. Also a legendary nightclub performer in the '30s-'40s-'50s, as well as the creator of Mark Wilson's Train illusion (designing the Thin Sawing Illusion in the process) and associate producer of The Magic Land of Alakazam TV program. Also designed the 1964 New York World's Fair Hall of Magic for General Cigar Co.
Wrote: Victory Bouquet (1944), Walsh Cane Routines (1945), Rope Hectic! (1945), Miracle Silk (1945)
This is a manual of how to make your own flower bouquets. Sure you can buy a beautiful bouquet, but if you want to save some money and do a little home project, this is the right book for you. By doing it yourself your bouquet won't look like the standard one every magician seems to use.
1st edition, 1944, New York; 17 pages.
Introduction
Requirements
Blossoms
Outside leaves or petals (calyx)
Springs
Spring reinforcements
Stems
Stem leaves
Stem wrappings
Folding the blossom
Preparing the stem
Cutting and shaping the spring
Mounting the spring on stem
Fitting the blossom on stem and spring
Shaping and applying the outside leaves
Stem leaves
Wrapping stem and leaves
Assembling the bouquet
A handy holder
A sleeve holder
Producing a bouquet
From the sleeves
Without a foulard
Production blossoms
Dart bouquets
Outside leaves or pedals (calyx)
Stem leaves
Stems
Uneven bouquets
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