06-28-2004, 09:13 AM
That really depends on how you want it to look. In TCM2 it was stitched with shoelaces. It\'s not how to stitch it as much as what to use. If you wanna get crazy though find out how to suture wounds (internet, medical book) and practice on pigs feet from the grocery store. Your going to want to use a curved needle all the same, go to a crochet store or craft store to get one. You can use just about anything to sew it up though leather lace was used for most of the films. I\'d like to see an original skin mask using the old Victorian steel suture method that they\'d close up the v incision with after an autopsy. The Sawyer family (sorry but renaming them the Hewitts was stupid) settled in the area a century earlier so no doubt they would have old books or notes lying around on the subject. They often used catgut to suture wounds long ago, which is exactly what it sounds like. Dried cat gut was used until the late 19th century while they were experimenting with sterilization. Doctors actually had dissection cases containing very expensive amputation tools with ivory handles and silver blades they would display in their homes like fine china or nowadays a latex monster head. Unbeknownst to doctors at the time you can never fully sterilize ivory or silver and their dissection cases swam with bacteria... Back on subject, the stitching that connects the scalp to the badly decomposed face of bubba\'s hunting mask in the original film is no doubt supposed to be something like catgut. Human gut if you would.
Hope this has been some food for thought.
Hope this has been some food for thought.