Papercraft puppets, wooden puppets, fabric puppets, puppets from hundred of years ago and of course, the detailed craft work that went into all the Henson stuff...
I mean you could see how some of the stuff was stitched together. Also interesting was to see some Muppet characters from the films - as was pointed out to me, it's obvious that Henson was aware that you could capture much finer detail on film. Fishface from Labyrinth and the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal were both great examples of this:
I don't know how much you can see from this detail, but the costume alone is an intricate work. It is delicate layers of aged, torn, once highly intricate laces and velvets. The kind of fabrics that manage to suggest long-faded nobility. Not that you could see the detail in the movie, but the overall effect is something you would respond to subliminally.What defines a "master" craftsman? Well, thereyougo.
