The carving of wooden hand made marionettes and puppet theatre has a long tradition in the Czech republic.

Historians place the beginnings of czech puppet theatre in the second half of the 18th century.
And there are still some artistic  puppetcarvers in the Czech republic who go on doing hand made wooden marionettes …

Their works go sometimes beyond the traditional conceptions of marionettescarving and for whom wooden marionettes represent primarily artistic expression of their own right.

One of them is also Petr Kavan – well-known sculptor and carver.