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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:35:21 -0500
From: Mathieu Rene <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Skeleton For Felted Puppets ?


 

	Why not make a body out of sewn cloth filled tight with polyfill?
It's easy to hinge, by simply stitching where the bend should be.  A
few stitches in the back of the legs (joining up and down by thread),
and on the insides of the elbows, will bend them a little, and prevent
bending backwards. 

	Then you could knit the areas of the skin that show, and felt that.
 Then you use the clothes to hide the rest. 

	If you build a hard skeleton instead, try to add some fabric or
something as a pocket over the articulations, to isolate them, so that
the costume or the felting does not catch. could just be a tube of
muslin, glued on both parts. 
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