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How to make the Wooden Mask

The tradition of wooden mask making has gone along throughout history for both artistic and ritual purposes. Wooden Crafting requires a bit of patience since it is not an easy task.

Ingredients:

1. Saw: used to cut wood.
2. Tool chisel: to form the wood into the desired shape.
3. Drill: to facilitate the process of hollowing wood.
4. Wood glue: glue is used for adhesive if on the carving the process there is a broken wood.
5. Sandpaper: to smooth the wood that has been carved.

Ways of making:

1. Let us prepare the raw material that is in the form of wood.
2. Cut the wood according to the desired size using a saw.
3. Carving archetypes to shape the eyes, nose, mouth and other additional motifs using chisels, to form something you want. Once carved, then puree the wood that has been carved with sandpaper.
4. Finishing, ie giving color to the mask for the character of the mask can be seen, either with ordinary colors and coloring in the form of batik.

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