by Tara Maginnis
OCR and Scanning by Karen Wood

This workbook was made in 1984-85 as part of my my MA Project at California State University Fresno.  It was intended as a text workbook for the Advanced Costume Construction class to use in the costume properties portion of the class. Certain portions of the text now border on the antique because of the date at which it was written, for example under "Materials" in 1985 a hot glue gun was an unusual craft supply, only obtainable at hardware stores.  I hope you will bear with these small oddities and look to the basics of this work, intended as an introduction to several basic costume crafts processes. --TM

• Materials used in the projects and where to buy them 
• Chapter 1 Creating Non-Toxic Metal Jewelry Finishes
• Chapter 2 A Muslin Mache Mask
• Chapter 3 Quick Latex Nose (Positive Mold)
• Chapter 4 Detailed Latex Mask (Negative Mold)
• Chapter 5 Flexible Paint on Latex
• Chapter 6 Cast Acrylic Jewels
• Chapter 7 A Sculpted Foam Rabbit Head
• Chapter 8 1910 Lady's Hat of Buckram
• Chapter 9 A Shop-Made Edwardian Hat Pin
• Chapter 10 A Felt Hat Made from Craft Felt
• Chapter 11 Celastic Greaves
• Chapter 12 Shop-Made Corset Bones
• Chapter 13 Hexalite Helmet (now called Veraform) 
• Chapter 14 Non Toxic Metal Finishes for Armor
• Chapter 15 Distressing a Standard Man's Shirt
• Bibliography