Big Top Carnival

About this pack

Big Top Carnival raises the tent. Crimson and cream canvas runs in broad vertical stripes with visible stitched seams, and a second panel is crossed by a wide gold scalloped valance. Dusty brick-red cobblestone comes bare or with trodden yellow straw worked into the gaps. Plain weathered cream canvas, polished dark navy enamel with a cold sheen and a gold stud at each corner, warm red-brown fired brick and cream painted board with a fine crackle carry the structure. Warm honey stage boards with small brass nailheads pair with darker varnished planks, an upright cream tent pole wrapped in a broad spiral crimson band, and its flat cap plate ringed in gold. A shelf of wooden hoops, painted skittles, a brass hand bell and folded bunting, crimson and cream pennant bunting cloth, a navy painted iron plate studded along its seam and patchy fairground turf strewn with straw finish the set. This is surface artwork only: nothing glows, nothing is transparent and no block behaves differently.