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Mask Making  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: With many tips and books etc...
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Added on: 30-Dec-2000
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Tips and advice for making masks  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: (The following was written with masquerade masks in mind, but generic enough for most mask making I guess.) Part one: Tips for the beginner Part two: Tips for the more experienced Part three: Tips for the expert
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Added on: 14-Sep-2002
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68 Ways to Make Really Big Puppets  Popular
  
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: Simple Puppets: Fathead/ Purely Cardboard/ Pole Dragon/ Face Banner/ Star Banner/ Hat Cat/ Totem/ Flier/ Jo's Penguin/ Shimmy Dancer/ Hattifatner/ Other (Flapping Angel) Backpacks: About Backpacks/ Jo's Ladies/ Jose's Ecstatic/ Demonoid/ Hep Cat/ Skeleton Animals: Two-person Fish/ Cats and Dogs/ Riding Horse/ Wire Demon/ Circus Stilt Ape/ One-person horse/ Two-person Cat/ Four-person Beast/ Frog/ Other Animals Birds: Bread and Puppet Flying Bird/ Flapping-wing Bird/ Heron/ Wire Bird/ Stilt Bird Dragons: Ground Dragon/ Half-hoop Caterpiller/ Half-hoop Dragon/ Mermaid/ Heads/ Tails/ Other Dragons Giant Puppets: Preying Mantis/ Mr. America/ Poseidon/ Flora/ Dorchester African King/ RISD Fisherman/ Samba Dancer/ George's Jumping Jack Death Hoop and Cloth Puppets: Wiggletree/ Mr. Punch/ Big Fish/ Big Croc Other: Foam Puppets/ Printed Banners/ Plaster Casting Technical Information: Making Faces/ Costumes/ Attaching Heads/ Hands/ Stilts/ Crankie (paper movie)/ Materials The Patternbook of Pageants and Processions Rain (on some other) Forest Parade The Street is a Shining Sea Urbanity Midnight Ramble Parade Rites of Spring Masque of the Five Senses
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Added on: 20-Mar-2001
Rating: 9.5 (4 Votes)
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Masquerade Masks  Popular
Category: Start / Maskmakers / Papier mach
Description: Hand made paper mache masks. Artist gallery features masks that are currently available through the artist, or at Renaissance Faires. Specializing in Renaissance and Medieval styles.
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Added on: 28-Jun-2005
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Make mardi gras masks easy - children  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: A how to do it site
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Added on: 24-Jul-2002
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Khon Mask Making  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: The making of each mask can take many days of detailed work. The first stage is the moulding of a plaster form to the size and shape of the actor's head. On to this is applied many layers of papier mache in order to build up the character's features. For the best masks a special tissue thin paper (hand - made from a tree bark called "khoi") is used. Up to 20 layers of khoi paper are glued on to the form, then the surface is dried and smoothed
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Added on: 15-Mar-2001
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Mask making /sculpting in clay / Lesson  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: +photos
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African Masks  Popular
  
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: Artyfactory is a free online workshop for artists of any age. Try out our African Mask unit and follow the step by step instructions to design an African tribal mask.
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Added on: 02-Nov-2002
Rating: 10.0 (1 Vote)
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Venetian and masquerade masks  Popular
Category: Start / Galleries - exhibitions - shops
Description: Masquerade Magic are retailers of authentic venetian masks , commedia dell'arte masks and fine leather masks from around the world.As well as these superior masks we sell a wide range of budget masks, believing that the fun and mystery of wearing a mask should be available to all.We are constantly seeking new ranges and would love to hear from designers of unusual and beautifull masks.
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Added on: 30-Jan-2009
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Makin Masks!! with milk jugs  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: +Photo Take plastic milk jugs and cut them in two from top to bottom. Cover them with masking tape so paint and glue will stick to them. Cut out eye holes Paint em and glue feathers and stuff to them. Put a string around the back to hold them on. Elastic string works best. Yer done.
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Added on: 24-Jul-2002
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Carnival masks shop, Masquerade masks, Ball masks  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making / Materials
Description: Masquerade masks are based on an old Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte. Our production includes all the basic types but we have also very original designs for your masquerade, carnival or party ball needs. Many models were created according to extant resources and were consulted with others experts. Each mask is completely hand made and is an unique and original product.
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Added on: 26-Aug-2008
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Alice's Masks Studio / Agostino Dessi /Papier-M?ch? / Firenze / Italy  Popular
  
Category: Start / Maskmakers / Papier mach
Description: Agostino Dess? is born in 1952 in Serdiana (province of Cagliari) in Sardinia where the mask has a traditional importance as testified by the ?mammutones? mask and the ?sartiglia? mask. In Florence he found the ideal artistic atmosphere in this exceptional city of art. He opened his own workshop here in 1979.Since 1997, His daughter, Alice, has also been actively involved in their historic Florentine workshop, organizing "international mask-making workshops" (the last week of every month) on the practical techniques of mask creation, with courses open to anybody who is interested in and an enthusiast of this type of art
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Added on: 16-Jan-2001
Rating: 10.0 (5 Votes)
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Build a Pharoah Mask - webschool  Popular
  
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: Paper Model of a Pharoah Death Mask Read instructions Get page 1 of the Model. Get page 2 of the Model.
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Added on: 20-Jun-2002
Rating: 9.3 (3 Votes)
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BASIC MASK MAKING CONSTRUCTION  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making / Methods
Description: BASIC MASK MAKING CONSTRUCTION From the Kappellenberg class 12/18/00 by Lady Sveva Lucciola Good information on clothing method, leather, paper mache etc
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Make a Dogon Mask. Kids.  Popular
  
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: Want to be a bird, a rabbit, an antelope or a hunter? + brief vdeo/sound clip, Dogon maskdance
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Added on: 20-Jun-2002
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GOBLIN ART / Individually Handmade by Monica J. Roxburgh  Popular
  
Category: Start / Maskmakers
Description: "I have been building masks and puppets since 1996, and sculpting and drawing since I was old enough to hold a crayon. I love creating visual art with almost every medium, but things like mask-making and puppetry are particularly fascinating to me as they bring art into that magical dimension of time and movement."
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Added on: 16-Jan-2001
Rating: 9.0 (2 Votes)
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Atelier Revellio, - Maskmaking guide - Germany  Popular
  
Category: Start / Mask making / Methods
Description: An absolutely splendid photoguide of maskmaking "the old way". Check it out. German site. Great photos
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Added on: 20-Nov-2002
Rating: 7.0 (2 Votes)
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Papier-Mache Masks by V. C. Howard  Popular
Category: Start / Maskmakers / Papier mach
Description: Papier-Mache Masks by V. C. Howard...
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Added on: 15-Jan-2008
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Franton Design Masks  Popular
Category: Start / Mask making
Description: Beare of the noise
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Added on: 12-Mar-2009
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mask a viz - the mask maker  Popular
Category: Start / Maskmakers
Description: As an artist I seek for ways by which to address contradictions and paradox. “The Mask” has given me a form with which I can play with the paradoxical nature of human experience. “The Mask” is an object of concealment which will also reveal.
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Added on: 27-Aug-2008
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John Flemming  Popular
Category: Start / Maskmakers / Leather
Description: ohn Flemming, New Orleans' renowned leather mask maker, concentrates on the art of transformation. His subject is the mask, that ancient form that both disguises and reveals. Flemming creates intricately crafted masks in leather that stand independent as sculptures and, when worn, encompass the wearer in an evocative atmosphere.
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Added on: 26-Aug-2008
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Anna Boel  Popular
Category: Start / Mask artists
Description: Vor 20 Jahren habe ich damit begonnen Masken anzufertigen.
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Added on: 12-Mar-2009
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Facade Custom Design Masks  Popular
Category: Start / Maskmakers
Description: Sales of custom designed feathered masks perfect for Gay Pride, Mardi Gras, Halloween, society ball, or as an eye-catching decoration for your home.
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Added on: 27-Jun-2003
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Cheryl Mandus - Angel Masks  Popular
  
Category: Start / Maskmakers / Leather
Description: The sculptured eyeholes, the beaks and pointed noses, tapering, dripping cheeklines and deeply brooding brows, the peaks and twists and swirling curls, saturations of wanton colors --
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Added on: 31-Dec-2000
Rating: 9.9 (6 Votes)
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"Mask Making 101 - A History of Masks and Instructions to Create One" by Lady Meliora Leuedai de Ard  Popular
Category: Start / Articles on masks
Description: See also the files: masks-msg, theater-bib, theater-msg, cosmetics-msg, puppets-msg, jesters-msg, fabric-paint-msg, guilds-msg, feathers-msg.
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