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FILE NAME: Smoking (SMOK) DATE: 1955 DOC#: SMOK049 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Book Excerpt - Exploring PapierMache px EXPLORING PAPIERMACHE b y Vi c t o r i a Bedford betts TT 87/ B i5 Copyright 1955 by Davis Publications, Inc. Worcester, Massachusetts, U. S. A . Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7962 LIBRARY NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS BNIYERSITY 99996 Third Printing 1959 Second Printing 1956 Printed in the United States Strengthening Materials: Wire, wood, metal, cardboard, plaster of Paris, powdered clay, sawdust, salt, sand, asbestos powder, buckram, cloth strips and scraps. : Cores, Frames, A rm atures: Chicken or turkey wire, baling wire, car tons, crates, tubes, dowels, wood scraps, bowls, fruits, vegetables, gourds, balloons, ' modeling clay. I 1 1 Trim m ing M aterials: Cotton batting, Jelt, fabrics, jnetal. foils, flowers, ribbons, feathers, bells, beads, 16 5 Discar special dent instruc by the capturi Group5 to a ge Uses o f & Some ; ural a: for beg B eads, Bn Eyes, c Cardboari Cars, 1 figures, boxes. Cloth.: Costum - stage p; 17 ta, nd Sew tiny ads. Let shell of a dth loops ay as the sck with ) in posi- Whittle lere they the cross t puppet tend belalves of strips of lot split, 75. ten bent ! r ude tL _aste e of the neck. y safety m tape. ihin and iove and ice with ip, with ross the he sides low the 60 1 a| >33 1 55 1 1:.S?r _ 1 1 1 3 `. | 3 s . ij ** t I l1.3; 3 'i | y | S jfe .IS S[ I j 1 1 i Solid Marionette Heads Solid heads can be modeled of paper pulp, of dry crumpled paper with top layers of pasted strips or of paper mixtures (paper and paste " f ed with sawdust, salt, wax, asbestos, or other materials). . Control loops can be inserted and ce mented in any solid head. Paper modeling can be done over any of these cores: discarded light bulbs, gourds, nest eggs, dowels, balls. Simplify and exaggerate the features for an effective puppet character. Pencils, brush handles paper clips, orange sticks and spoons are helpful modeling tools when pulp is used.