66 entries in Rope / Knot Effects / Sliding
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
The Vanishing Square Knot square knot to slip knot, two ropes
1941 ca. 27
Visibly knot slides of rope
1941 ca. 36
Tom Fitzgerald "Take It Off" knot is slid on rope then taken off
Dec. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 49)
202
Joseph Keen Slip Knot knot slides on rope and is removed
Also published here June 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 86)
350
George Sands Sandsational Rope routine with extra piece
  • I. Brazen Restoration
  • II. Stretching a Rope
  • III. Frustrated Restoration
  • IV. Continuous Circle
  • V. Much Ado About Knotting
  • VI. Sliding Cut
  • VII. Sleight of Leg
  • VIII. Regular Restoration
  • IX. Removable Knot
  • X. Give a Magician Enough Rope
VariationsAlso published here 1949 3
John Hamilton Hamilton's Idea sliding knot, that can also be picked off the rope
Also published here May 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 203)
812
A False Knot Resulting in a Sliding Knot
1956 11
Jack Miller Sliding Knot
Also published here 1957 4
Eddie Taytelbaum Sliding & Vanishing Knot knot is moved from middle of rope to both ends, using false G.W. Hunter Puzzle Knot
1968 103
The Repeat Knots knot slides on rope and is removed, repeated, à la slippery knots routine by Joe Ovette
1968 48
Joseph Keen Joseph Keen's Slip Knot knot slides on rope and is removed
Also published here 1968 50
Tom Fitzgerald Take It Off knot slides on rope and is removed
1968 53
Johnny Penrose Steal of the Red Knot center of rope is dyed red, knot formed and removed, silk tube
Also published here
  • Goodliffe's "Abracadabra"
1968 68
John Hamilton Hamilton's Idea sliding knot, that can also be picked off the rope
Also published here 1968 78
John Giordmaine John Giordmaine's Comedy Rope Trick knot removed from rope, then rope is cut and ends put in two different trousers pockets, rope is restored
1968 214
Tom Hubbard The Sliding Knot
Related to 1970
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70)
83
J. W. Sarles Not a Knot long and short rope tied together, then knot slid in center and ropes untied, sliding knot
Variations Nov. 1970 371
Mike Tannen Sliding & Vanishing Knot
1972 381
Tenkai Ishida False Knot Gimmick knot is moved and picked off rope, pipe cleaner gimmick
1974 103
Jerry Mentzer Improved Kavorting Kords knot in red rope and knot in white rope transpose and back, then knots are slid off and vanish
1976 6
George Sands Sliding Knot Tie switching ends and tying knot, extra piece
  • Deceiving Rotation
Related toAlso published here 1976 18
George Sands Sliding Knot Tie with extra piece
Also published here 1976 31
George Sands Sliding Knot
  • Sliding Knot - Set Up
  • Sliding Knot - Illusion
Also published here 1976 37
José de la Torre New Professor's Nightmare
  • Cutting the Rope
  • The False Count
  • The Illusion of the Short, Middle and Long Ropes
  • The Triple "A" Illusion (All Alike Again)
  • The Paramount Long Rope Illusion
  • Knots to You! (The Sliding Knot)
  • Optional Climax (knot shot and it slides down rope)
  • Patter
  • A Few Comments
Related to 1977 59
Paul Curry Restoration Supreme cut and restored rope with sliding knot, different restoration
Also published here 1978 5
Horace E. Bennett The Amazing, Jumping, Flying, Sliding Knot knot jumps, slides and is picked off, then cut and restored rope
Inspired by
  • George Sands' "Ropesation"
Related to
1978 17
John Cornelius The Sliding Knot idea of doing it with different colored silks on page 192, another handling by Michael Sondermeyer on page 444
Related toVariationsAlso published here Jan. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 1)
149
Karl Fulves The Sliding Knot credit information
Related to 1979
Interlocutor (Issue 32)
126
Blair Bowling Sliding Knot, Plus magnet gaffed version
Inspired by Jan. 1980
Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 1)
294
Sixten Beme Crazy Rope sliding knot, then ropes restore to one
May 1981
Apocalypse (Vol. 4 No. 5)
483
John Brown Slydinknot slip knot
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here Nov. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 31)
600
Stephen Tucker Christmas Cord Knot Again
Inspired byAlso published here Dec. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 32)
615
Manfred Cattarius 1. Knotenroutine three knots appear in rope, knots are removed and appear again
1984 20
Manfred Cattarius 2. Knotenroutine knot jumps from one end of rope to other
1984 28
Jack Miller Sliding Slip Knot
Also published here 1986 2
Karl Fulves Harness Hitch comment on a supposed slip knot
Related to
  • The Ashley Book of Knots
1986 9
Karl Fulves Little One unequal ropes, knotted, knot slides to other end and back, one rope shrinks in process, performed at table
Inspired byRelated to 1986 15
Karl Fulves Sliding Reference credit information on sliding knot
Related to 1986 25
Pat Conway D.I.Y. Sliding Knot
1987 104
Pat Conway Rope Interlude sliding knot effect, knot slid off
1987 116
Joseph K. Schmidt A Sliding Knot Sequence moving knot after Hunter's Puzzle knot
1987 20
John Cornelius The Sliding Knot with two ropes
Also published here 1988 20
The Peddler's or Traveling Knot knot is moved on rope
1989 26
Jack Miller Miller's Sliding Knots No. 14, knot slides from one end to the other
Also published here 1990 28
The Fake Knot No. 23, knot slid off rope, shown and pocketed
1990 48
Sliding Knot No. 24, two ropes knotted, knot slides to one side, ropes unknotted and now of different length
1990 50
Milbourne Christopher, Dr. Zina Bennett, Karl Fulves Triplicity No. 38, routine, three knots appear, one vanishes, one is untied and one is pulled off
1990 72
Stephen Tucker The Knot Key Sliding Knot
Variations Apr. 1991
Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 4)
1918
Stephen Tucker Apocalypse Variations Or Additions
Inspired by Sep. 1991
Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 9)
1975
Aldo Colombini Slip knot sliding along rope and finally jumps off the rope
1991 6
Aldo Colombini Sliding Color-Changing Knot
Nov. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 11)
2139
Karl Fulves Ends Meet "a sliding knot trick"
Inspired by 1994
Rigmarole (Issue 7)
82
Salvano Das Indianische Notizbuch knot pulled off rope and thrown in air
1994 20
Roy Johnson, Geoffrey Durham Hyp-Knot-isch rope cut, long and short pieces transpose, with traveling knot
  • Der wandernde Knoten
  • Das Verschieben des Knotens
  • Der Austausch
Also published here
  • Unique
1995
Intermagic (Vol. 19 No. 4 & 5)
142
Stephen Tucker Der Gleitknoten
Also published here 1996
Intermagic (Vol. 20 No. 4 & 5)
180
Paul Curry Restoration Supreme cut and restored rope with sliding knot, different restoration
Inspired byAlso published here 2001 370
John Cornelius KnotSoTuff with two ropes
Also published here 2001 17
Al Baker Latest Rope Effect: The Sliding Knot
2003 717
Francis Tabary The Visible Voyage of the Ends rope is knotted to a ring and knot visibly slides down on rope
2004 62
Francis Tabary, Flip Hallema The Wandering Knot with extra piece
2004 158
Alexander de Cova Roping rope routine with jumping knot, traveling knot, linking rope rings
  • Effekt Nr. 1 - Jumpy Knot
  • Effekt Nr. 2 - Cornelius Knot
  • Effekt Nr. 3 - die sich verketteten Seilringe
Also published here 2007 3
Alexander de Cova Robing rope routine with jumping knot, traveling knot, linking rope rings
  • Effekt Nr. 1 - Jumpy Knot
  • Effekt Nr. 2 - Cornelius Knot
  • Effekt Nr. 3 - die sich verketteten Seilringe
Also published here 2010 31
George Sands, Alan Sands Sandsational Rope routine with extra piece
  • Part 1 - Nomenclature of a Rope
  • Part 2 - Is there no end?
  • Part 3 - Nor a center
  • Alan's Variation
  • Part 4 - Restoration
  • Part 5 - The Lure
  • Part 6 - It's a Long Stretch
  • Part 7 - Casual Restoration
  • Part 8 - Around and Around
  • Part 9 - Merry-Go-Round
  • Part 10 - Sliding Knot
  • Part 11 - Dissection
  • Part 12 Sleight-of-Leg
  • Part 13 - Finger Cut
  • Part 14 - Classical Restoration
  • Part 15 - Shoelace Knot
  • Part 16 - Give a Magician Enough Rope
  • Conclusion
  • Part 17 - Comedy Ending by Alan Sands
Also published here 2014 1
George Sands Sliding Knot Tie switching ends and tying knot, extra piece
  • Deceiving Rotation
Also published here 2014 33
George Sands Sliding Knot Tie with extra piece
Also published here 2014 44
George Sands Sliding Knot
  • Sliding Knot - Set Up
  • Sliding Knot - Illusion
Also published here 2014 48