puppet maker
String figure artisan
A puppet maker is someone who creates puppets—the figures manipulated by hand, strings, or rods in performances.
The craft involves sculpting, sewing, and engineering mechanisms for movement.
Puppet makers work in theater, film, and television, building everything from simple hand puppets to elaborate marionettes and animatronic creatures: The puppet maker spent months constructing the dragon for the stage production.
- marionetteString-controlled theatrical figure
- stringsThin flexible lines
- pulling stringsExercising covert influence
- workshopPlace for making or learning
- carvingShaping by cutting away
wood · Geppetto · Pinocchio · Jim Henson · stage · theater · hand · felt · fabric scraps · paint · joints · articulation · manipulation · performance · craftsman · cloth · sawdust · hinges
- toy makersdollmaker
- craftspeoplepotter, weaver, blacksmith, artisan, potters
- Japanese craftspeoplecalligrapher, ceramicist, papermaker, tea master, dyer
- shadow puppetryshadow play, shadow theater, wayang kulit, backlighting, shadow figures
- creative kidsyoung artist, child prodigy, storyteller, doodler, young dancer
puppet makerpuppeteer
Performer controlling jointed figures
ventriloquist · puppet master · string-puller · stage performer · manipulator
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