The Slow Road
Two Women Wandering the World
Sign over the entrance to the workshop of the late Thai shadow puppeteer Suchart Subsin
Traditional Thai shadow puppets collected or made by Suchart are displayed in a small museum at his home
Many of the puppets depict characters from a famous Indian epic called the Ramayana
Besides the puppets, we enjoyed seeing the inside of a traditional southern Thai wooden house
A puppet of a 1920s-style Thai biplane
Suchart's daughter-in-law, also a puppet maker, uses a metal punch and hammer to make decorative holes in a puppet made from buffalo hide
After all of the decorative holes have been punched, the puppet is cut out with a sharp knife
A large punched and cut-out puppet, ready for painting. Suchart's daughter-in-law says food coloring works best for paint.
A large puppet like this can take a month to punch, cut, and paint
Given our recent adventures riding a motorbike, we loved this not-so-traditional puppet
Some of the many puppets made by Suchart and his family
Suchart's daughter-in-law waves goodbye
