Saturday, February 13, 2010

Japanese paper automata at "Kuralica"


Nozomi Sakuma offers under his label "Kuralica" 10 cutouts for mechanical paper toys and automata. The sites with the spinning gears are under construction.
http://www.kuralica.net/birthday/index.html

6 comments:

Deal said...

Really wonderful paper toys. But how thew heck do you order them?

jaime said...

Really Cute!

Shelley Noble said...

I love these!

I used my (pretty poor) translation widget and discovered the models are about $14. US and have a "Handling store" at this link:

http://www.kuralica.net/shop/index.html

I imagine at that price they send out color printed, possibly even diecut pieces?

Expensive but cute!

Shelley Noble said...

Poked around further, it's actually a nice paper site. She has sections illustrating ideal tools and techniques for assembling her well produced automata kits. (Just click on all bolded Japanese text and root around.)

See all the photos of the birthday kit here for example: http://www.kuralica.net/birthday/index.html

And apparently in order to order one should email her: mail@kuralica.net

If she has PayPal, I'd love to try a kit as a treat.

FalkK said...

Hi Deal, Jaime and Shelley.
Yes, this navigating on the japanese sites is a special challenge and if you discover pictures you feel like a winner.
If you want see the other automatists I found, go to my
http://kugelbahn.blog.de/
Very interesting for me this museum for wooden mechanical toys and automata PORUPEPPO. If you click there 'Shop' you can see some paper automata from Walter Ruffler.
http://www.porupeppo.com/

Greets Falk

cpeep said...

Wish I could just order the file and print it myself!