papier mache

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We began each session by dancing around a cardboard mushroom with a papier-mâché owl on top of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

One of the most famous involved Frank Morris, and brothers Clarence and John Anglin, who escaped in June 1962 by placing papier-mâché heads in their beds and breaking out through ventilation ducts.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

Above us were giant papier-mâché heads of alebrijes — colorful Mexican folk art figurines — used at LA Librería’s recent appearance at the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Her first intervention was to style the windows, which she thought were boring, adding mannequins and whimsical objects like papier-mâché dogs.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024

She tried to imagine some use Wash might have for papier-mâché body parts, but nothing came to mind.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez