Encouraged by his success, farmers, first from his village and then from neighboring villages, and people around the area turned to making wooden toys, a local craft that was born in the Ming ...

The toy makers bring the wood to sawmills, a subsidiary industry here, and cut them into small pieces. They carve the pieces into different shapes, with hand blades and knives.

A village near Hampi — famous for its wooden toys — is holding on to an art form that has few takers By Bindu Gopal Rao Updated - November 01, 2019 at 03:06 PM.

The group called Hobby Hut is made of residents at the John Knox Village Senior Living Community. Children within the Lee’s Summit Social Services get these toys, made to last for generations.

Saturday, a memorial held at Tiny Tim’s Toy Factory in West Jordan—a charitable organization that said it makes and gives away 100,000 or more wooden toys cars a year—had the human ...