The art
of decorating the puppet
Puppets made of buffalo leather, which has the properties of rigid and thick, not easily bent, so the puppet can give up and stay flat.
Flattening the skin over the base easily carved and translucent perforated in accordance with a chisel tip motif. The motifs are arranged to form the unity of form beautiful ornaments. If given a touch of color will result in a harmonious blend of colors and shapes are very interesting and this is called the art of decoration on buffalo skin wayang.
Why goat skin, cow skin is not used for puppet making, since goat skin is thin and easily bent, while the thickness cowhide still lower.
Puppet making necessary tool steel chisel and mallet of wood and a pencil to make sketches on the buffalo skin. The chisel is used a chisel set contains 32 kinds ofsculpture. Sculptured forms can be seen as in the picture.
