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This Puppet Recipe brings gives you a chance to see what was at the Hastings Automata Festival, which brought together some of the best automata makers in the world. Mirek then explained how he constructed his own piece, and showed another simple automata mechanism used by Paul Spooner in his famous Frog Princess automata.

Did you miss the Automata Fest, organized by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Hastings with some of the world's leading Automata makers?...

UNIMA was started in Prague in 1929. And the 100th anniversary will be celebrated by holding their 25th Congress here!

See the recording of our 2025 Puppetry Day Celebration on April 27! Find out from our students how they built beautiful AUTOMATA and...

So many beginner carvers do not understand how deep in the face they must make a puppet's nose, cheeks, mouth, and the corners of the eye. This puppet recipe teaches you how to find the correct depth.

Learn to make this special gadget invented by MirekTrjetnar that allows you to draw a straight line in the center of wooden blocks!

František Vítek (born 1929) and Věra Říčařová Vítková (born 1936) It is impossible to over-estimate the significance of František Vítek...

At our Puppet Recipe on April 6, Mirek taught students about carving a mouth, beard, hair, and ears.