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January Puppet Recipe, Carving Hands and Feet
Video Recording of Carving video(11 January 2026) Recipe Card 12: Carving Hands and Feet How Long Will the Video Be Available? This post will be accessible to all Puppet Recipe subscribers until the next Puppet Recipe. Join the Golden Czech Hands subscription and enjoy access for as long as you remain a subscriber. Coming Next Month! Sign up now for the next Puppet Recipe. Book a place in the upcoming workshop to ensure you receive the Zoom link.
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January Puppet Recipe, Carving Hands and Feet
Video Recording of Carving video(11 January 2026) Recipe Card 12: Carving Hands and Feet How Long Will the Video Be Available? This post will be accessible to all Puppet Recipe subscribers until the next Puppet Recipe. Join the Golden Czech Hands subscription and enjoy access for as long as you remain a subscriber. Coming Next Month! Sign up now for the next Puppet Recipe. Book a place in the upcoming workshop to ensure you receive the Zoom link.
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New Year's Party
Celebrate 2026 by reuniting with puppet friends online! Call for FINISHED PUPPETS, PUPPET RECIPES and AUTOMATA- wrap up 2025 by assembling old projects and then show them off at our party! WHEN: January 2, 3 pm EST / 9 pm Prague time WHERE: On Zoom Sign up now, it's free! More information about our presenters coming soon. Automata Workshop Students See the beautiful creations of Chesley Cannon, Cara Jane Hayman, Heidi Vanwachtendonck , Kathryn Rathke, Adriana Hollenbeck, Sabi
Dec 30, 20251 min read
December Puppet Recipe, Mechanical Christmas
Puppet Recipe Challenge: Create a Nativity Scene by January 2 and Showcase It at Our PiP Online New Year's Party
Dec 8, 20251 min read
Mirek's Prague Exhibition
Mirek has two exhibitions taking place in Old Town throughout Christmas time: Christmas in Motion at the Manufaktura toy store on Karlova 26) - Mirek's Christmas automata, now with motors and special sensors Zvesela / Merry Merry at the Dooka Window Gallery at Husova 4 See some photos below!
Dec 6, 20251 min read
Czech Mechanical Christmas
As soon as Advent begins (four weeks before Christmas), Czechs start celebrating the holidays in earnest. Even though this is one of the world's least religious countries, people value Christmas traditions. One of our favorites is the mechanical nativity scene, carved folk art where everyday people, animals and and Czech landscapes overshadow religious imagery. Learn more including how they are constructed at our December Puppet Recipe - our monthly workshops. WHEN: December
Dec 2, 20251 min read
Puppets and the Velvet Revolution
On Sunday November 17, we will light a candle to remember the Velvet Revolution, which took place 35 years ago and was initiated by students
Nov 18, 20255 min read
Recording, Simple Mechanisms 1
See the first session of our Simple Mechanisms Workshop, the opening of our 2025-26 Automata Fundamentals Online Workshop, which took place on September, 2025. Learn to make several simple automata that you can easily make at home with scrap wood, clothespins, and other materials that are easily sourced. Our Automata Fundamentals Course will run from September 2025 to April 2026. It will be taught by Mirek Trejtnar, expert woodcarver, toymaker and automata builder. You can j
Nov 18, 20251 min read
November Puppet Recipe, Controllers
Learn about how to make all kinds of controllers:
Nov 10, 20251 min read
Marionette Controllers Workshop: November Puppet Recipe
Make your own at our next 2-hour online Puppet Recipe. November 9, 7-9 p.m. CET / 1-3 pm EST What do you need to consider when making a controller for your marionette? We will start with the basic Czech-style controllers for a human marionette, including the differences between a puppet on a wire vs. a puppet on strings. Then how to adjust your controller for special movements of hands and feet, moveable jaw, special controllers for trick variety puppets, how to design a cont
Nov 4, 20251 min read
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