# Ninja masks--how to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 10, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732 "2009-01-10T23:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/1 "2009-01-10T23:45:15Z")
The masks seen in ninja flicks are made of one wound strip of cloth, like a scarf. How do you wrap yourself in a scarf to form this kind of mask? Is there a page online with diagrams? ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/2 "2009-01-11T00:13:45Z")
Be a t-shirt ninja. [http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja\_fun/shirt\_ninja.shtml](http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja_fun/shirt_ninja.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/3 "2009-01-11T00:30:17Z")
> [@Iteki](#): > > Be a t-shirt ninja. > [http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja\_fun/shirt\_ninja.shtml](http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja_fun/shirt_ninja.shtml) Not…_quite_…what I was hoping for. Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/4 "2009-01-11T01:13:21Z")
[http://everything2.com/e2node/Ninja%2520mask](http://everything2.com/e2node/Ninja%2520mask) Second post. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/5 "2009-01-11T01:16:08Z")
How about this [description](http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1909560)? ETA: What ivn1188 said ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/6 "2009-01-11T01:19:42Z")
Our googlejitsu is strong. ---
**Author:** ![fandango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@fandango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fandango)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/7 "2009-01-11T03:04:23Z")
I remember Nintendo Power had an article about how to do this in the issue that featured the originial Ninja Gaiden. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/8 "2009-01-12T18:22:15Z")
**Bosda** , is [this](http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/01/08/0108ninjathief.html) you? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/9 "2009-01-13T23:06:20Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > **Bosda** , is [this](http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/01/08/0108ninjathief.html) you? No, I merely feel a whim to confront an evil warlord and bring justice to the downtrodden peasants. That, or an orange soda, I forget which. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/10 "2009-01-14T01:07:15Z")
> [@](#): > > No, I merely feel a whim to confront an evil warlord and bring justice to the downtrodden peasants. Oh, that. **Skald** ’s over that way. Make sure you attack alone, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/11 "2009-01-14T22:22:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Oh, that. **Skald** ’s over that way. Make sure you attack alone, though. HAI! \ ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Astronaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bad\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/12 "2009-01-15T00:52:09Z")
> [@](#): > > First, fold the square of fabric diagonally, corner to corner, making a right triangle. Fold this in half, from one 45 degree corner to the other, making another, smaller right triangle. > > Taking the two 45 degree corners in your hands, hold the triangle over your head and move your head inside the fold next to the right angle. Look up, so you can see out between the two sides of the fold. Bring the ends down tight against your face, so that only your eyes are showing. Tie the corners in the back. Now you’re ready to jump out of a tree and ambush someone. That makes sense to you guys? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/13 "2009-01-15T10:06:14Z")
It does to me, but I don’t know how else to describe it without pictures. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/14 "2009-01-15T11:34:24Z")
> [@Bad\_Astronaut](#): > > That makes sense to you guys? hm you know the typical bad guy in western movie fold the bandanna in half and tie it behind the head … dude, that is it. Just plunk a cowboy hat on top=) > **[Masks Page 1](https://www.novemberfire.com/masks/masks1.html)** This … though i really like the skull faces=) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/15 "2009-01-15T12:04:08Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > No, I merely feel a whim to confront an evil warlord and bring justice to the downtrodden peasants. > > That, or an orange soda, I forget which. Your best bet would be to dress yourself as a henchmen of the evil warlord, not a prop-handler ;). Especially if that evil warlord isn’t into Kabuki. **Skald** , what’s your stance viz. interpretative theater within your fortified secret compound ? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ninja-masks-how-to/480732/16 "2009-01-15T17:26:28Z")
Any _other_ descriptions/diagrams?