Dai Fu Lou Mask

Here is the very first Dai Fu Lou mask done, and also a new one is underway which will be made out of plastics so it would be lighter plus also won't get damaged when it gets wet and can be caried around easier.

WIP Dai Fu Mask part 2

Today we started with adding color to our mask. We have chosen for a special sheet that feels like fabric, the sheet has a kind of suede feel to it. We used spraying glue to glue the sheets onto the mask, also spraying glue is less messy then other glue and also fairly easy to apply when pasting sheets of things.

Here we have pasted the sides yellow first and then later paste with one long sheet over the front top and back. It is not a problem is you have to much fabric it is a bigger problem if you got too little. I actually learned how to pack this mask up cause of my packaging background and had learned how to do it cause of bookbinding and pasting graphics on packagings.

And this is almost to the final result of the mask. However we show you the final result of the mask very soon when we will be using it. So be sure to look out for Dai Fu Lou, also if you spot us you can take a picture with us any time.

WIP Dai Fu Mask

Eventually we have chosen the squared version of the Dai Fu Lou paper head because the it represented the original more. So from a small cut out template we went to 1:1 scale to fit on our heads. First we printed out the template we made before of the small version however because now it does not fit on an A4 we used the options to print it over multiple pages and paste it back together again.

Before this we actually made a box around one of us to make a basic measurement of one head, and calculated it over on to the template so we would know how big it should be. Placing the loose piece of the template together is not that hard but needs allot of measurings to straighten everything out. After we placed all the pieces of the template together we past the template onto a big curated cardboard box and made sure the pieces stick together properly.

Then we could start cutting out the template from the cardboard and cause we glued the template one the cardboard it would not move while you cut it to make sure your cuts are precise. To hold the parts together you need to cut a fold link a bit and it should fold much easier then just trying to force it by hand.

And here we got the total folded first Dai Fu Lou mask made from cardboard, the only hard bits that were to fold were the rounded sides, cause we forgot which direction to place the template but it was fairly easy to force it into that shape.

Here testing out the Dai Fu Mask one some special movements, also the first box we had made of one of our head is placed inside the Dai Fu Mask so we could actually more the mask in the same was as our head, cause without the box our heads would move freely inside the mask. Next thing to do is to add some colors and faces onto the mask, however we will show that in the second part of WIP Dai Fu Mask.