Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:37:35 -0800 (PST)
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] repairing taiwanese glove puppet


Dear Mathieu,

Thank you for the kind words. Glove puppets are indeed
built very strongly, however this one took a real
blow. A fellow puppeteer asked me to let them
manipulate the puppet and since they were a puppeteer
I did not think twice before handing it over. They had
seen a Taiwanese puppeteer flip the puppet and have it
land back on their hand and attempted to simulate the
trick and my puppet flew into the air and smashed into
the wall, shattering the laquer and taking the head
right off the neck. It is holding on by a thread, but
the crack goes all the way through. I don't know
whether or not to just take it off so I can glue the
line thoroughly, or to glue the outside and hope it
holds. Its going to be like ripping a bandaid though,
whatever I decide to do. 

I would send it to the very puppeteer who gave it to
me, however, when he gave it to me (which was a
totally lovely moment I will remember forever, we
exchanged our puppets as gifts) he said it was very
old and a gift from his master and he was not a
builder (in Taiwan the builders do not perform and the
performers do not build). 

I know I could get another on ebay, but this is the
kind of gift you cannot ever replace. It has meaning.
It came from the heart. I want to fix this one, not
spend money I don't have on another one. Even if I had
the money to buy a hundred glove puppets, I would not
want to.

He's a little clown puppet. 

Yvette

--- Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-magma.ca> wrote:

> I'm sorry for your hurt, Yvette.
> I wonder what that brute was thinking about, hurting
> a puppet!
> 
> But a glove puppet...is it not supposed to be very
> strong to resist being 
> hit by fellow puppets with the stick?
> 
> Maybe if you ship it to the original artist (if
> known) so it can be repaired 
> by the same talent and supplies and be better than
> new?
> 
> I wish you the best possible success in getting the
> puppet fully restored.
> 
> 
> Mathieu René Créaturiste
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