How papier-mâché shaped Italian Carnival: from Lecce workshops to parade floats, a craft tradition that blends community life, satire, and artistic skill ...

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo made a surprise appearance at the Carnival of Viareggio in Italy on Sunday, or at least a giant paper-mache version of him did. The world famous carnival is known to ...

Since the middle of February, countries all over the world have been parading elaborate floats, showing off big paper mache heads, and dancing in beautiful costumes. In the season of indulgence before ...

Venice Carnival kicks-off with colourful water parade A giant paper-mâché rat known as 'Pantegana' lead a colourful water parade down Venice's Grand Canal to mark the start of Carnival.