Black window screen would be picked up at the hardware store. They make window screen in plastics now and it is almost like fabric.

If you want a fabric that flows and moves then you want something like gauze or silk.

Thanks for that Shawn, that will help me heaps! Silk might me a bit costly...and too shiny, I think No-Face should be in satin or matte finish material...then again he is blobby...and he does have reflections and highlights in the movie...I dunno, any suggestions as to which would suit best? Er, puppet wise? Is flat/matte material easier to work because you don't have to worrry about it draping right?

Also, in those links it suggested buying a frame pack and modifying it for your puppet. I have a soft structured baby carrier that I could use, and is very durable, do you reckon that could be succesfully be modified and could hold the weight of the puppet without it wobbling all over the place? The baby carrier has no rigid metal bars, it's just like a padded backpack like so...

http://www.natural-pregnancy-mentor.com/images/nod5.jpg

http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/e/ff/eff5ff1ebee79e43d9af35520c42fe10-orig

I think that would work just fine. I have never built one but it looks great to me.

I agree with Billy, I think those would work fine.  You have a good solid base of fabric that you can use to sew to or attach to in another way any apparatus you want for holding things where you want them.  As an example, if you have seen the stage production of "Wicked", you might remember the flying monkeys and their wings.  The wings themselves are a metal contraption with fabric but it simply fits into a back pack of sorts that is simply a piece of leather that has buckles. 

The texture or slickness does not really affect the drape of a material. It can be harder to sew sometimes simply because it is slick and can move when you are sewing.  The secret is to either use a walking foot on your machine or to pin the fabrics well before you sew them together.  Fabrics well drape better if you cut them on the bias.  Bias can be kind of hard to explain.  The bias of the fabric runs not up and down or side to side but across the fabric diagonally.  Take a piece of fabric that is square and fold it corner to corner like a hankerchief.  That fold line is the bias and if you held the fabric on each point and let it sag you would see that it looks "nicer" of that it drapes well, then if you simply folded the square fabric over into a rectangle and tried the same thing from each end.  Hope that makes sense.  Anyone else have input that may help explain, please chime in!

Yay! Then I shall make plans to mod the baby carrier, and Shawn, it's all good, I know what the bias is, but thanks for your explanation, I will do that little test the next time I sew, it's a nifty trick

Yay! Then I shall make plans to mod the baby carrier, and Shawn, it's all good, I know what the bias is, but thanks for your explanation, I will do that little test the next time I sew, it's a nifty trick

Shawn I'm glad you explained the bias of cloth........... after all this time I did not have that straight in my mind. Am I embarrassed.

Billy D.

In all truthfulness, while I understand the basic concept of the bias of the fabric, I don't really fully understand it. A good designer of cloths knows how to use it to it's fullest to get the perfect fit on a body. I do know enough that if a pattern has bias lines for cutting I can follow it and find the bias of the fabric.  I can also make my own bias tape.

sounds like a great idea good luck!