I bought all Tarbell's books 20 years ago... and after many failed attempts to follow his arcane and
sometimes bizarre instructions and diagrams I gladly gave them away.
Tarbell came alive for me
when Penguin Magic, Dan Harlan and the revolution and democratization of the arts and crafts
movement coincided in the late 1990s.
I consider this Download - with the workshop staff and
camera crew involved - provides clear, concise, meticulous and comprehensive demonstrations and
explanations of the six effects with which it deals.
Also Mr Harlan, in all his modernization
work in the Tarbell Series, re-introduces the basic arts and crafts workshop conditions on which
family and community magic creation depends.