Thanks zooooom!  I am glad you shared the full process you use to make the patterns.  Like Chris said Pagestep007 (aka Philip) and I had talked about this process in order to make a pattern for foam hand in mouth puppets.  It was actually based on what a tailor does which is what you have done here. Hopefully with enough examples like this folks well begin to see how versatile this method can be.

Do you wrap like plasticine on your Marionette in the  form of the cloths you want, say like a flared sleeve, to then get the pattern? I wonder if you could use a combination of paper and tape on a larger sized puppet  to get forms? It would take lots of plasticine to wrap  the puppet though....hmmm.maybe play dough...then the  clear wrapper plastic would become really necessary to not get your puppet dirty... or would it just be more  efficient to go the traditional route and measure and drape, cut , stitch and adjust on the particular puppet in question? You have to be quite a fashion designer don't you! By the way I am loving your work Zooooom.

 :waveThanks for sharing. I could use this in doll making as well as puppets.

Thanks for sharing your method of patterning for costumes. I'd never thought to use plastic and tape, even though it's basically the same as covering clay for papier mache.

Thanks!!!!
I don't use a plasticine and barely make patterns in this way, it more like a regular tailor's work,anyway,I've seen this method a long ago and it just pop-up when I had a problem. Novadays we have this incredible option as an internet search and you can find a lot of useful info, for example for people who mostly deal with foam/fleece/fur and so - here a good place to check how  other folks works with those materials ( it's all about fursuit costumes but many common stuff ) . Unfortunately this social network often may be down for some reason
http://fursuit.livejournal.com/

I've started to build an octopus arms ( made of  polymer clay )

Nice and flexible. I had some ideas once, but they were to complicated to get through with. I should adopt yours...

Looks like you'll have really nice flexibility and movement with this.

Yes , so far it moves good but have to check after covering with fabric,maybe some sinkers should be added,anyway,here the lower part for the sea witch, I will cover it later

G.R.E.A.T.!