Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:27:23 EDT
Subject: Re: PUPT: Re:Stiffening fabric/wings


I know I am late to this discussion, but here is a way to make them that has 
worked for me for smaller puppets. You need Wire (I have use 24 gage and 
found it to work well) and fusible interfacing.  Bend the wire to make an 
outline of the wings. It is best to begin and end the wire in the middle so 
you don't have any loose pointy ends since you can twist the wire in the 
middle for the middle point of your wings. Place the wire between two layers 
of fusible interfacing. Follow the directions to fuse the interfacing 
together. Make sure that the area around the wire is well fused. (I learned 
that error the hard way.) Then cut around the wire leaving about an 1/8 of an 
inch around the outside. The great thing about interfacing is that you can 
paint it with all kinds of paints (or airbrush it) . Depending on your 
interfacing you use, some paints will run (another lesson learned during 
trial and error) so experiment first.  I know someone else who used the wire 
like the "veins" of the wing and fused the interface in a rather intricate 
pattern. I don't know how well this would work on larger wings (human sized). 
I would think that you would have to use a thicker wire. 
Kathleen


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