Tree Bartlett on cane construction of large puppets
Guild member “Tree” Glynn Bartlett spoke at his lovely garden workshop, and location of Glynn’s future puppet theatre for a workshop on large puppet construction, as learned while Tree was in South Africa working with Handspring Puppet Company (creators of War Horse.)
00:00 Materials
02:00 Weight & strength
03:29 Construction methods
06:22 Styrofoam carving
10:39 Papier mache
11:13 Warhorse construction
13:10 Cane construction
14:53 height consideration
16:30 Taking the head off the wire form
19:10 Inspiration
19:50 Weather
22:00 Transportation
23:10 Shaping modular shapes in cane
26:00 Covering the cane frame
29:30 What glue to use for mache
30:37 Ram board
33:30 Berkeley cane shop
35:05 Joining canes options
36:50 Shaping wet cane demo