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
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.
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/
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Really wonderful paper toys. But how thew heck do you order them?
Really Cute!
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!
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.
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
Wish I could just order the file and print it myself!
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