This file photograph, taken on Feb. 26, 2025, shows an artisan keeping the painted heads of dolls for drying at a toy ...

Wooden toys tend to be safer than plastic toys because babies put things in their mouth. Wooden toys also boost imagination ...

Ma Dafei, born in 1974, is another Yunhe business owner who returned from studying abroad to join the wooden toy industry. "Wooden toys have a deep connection with me. My parents were among the ...

Students try to create wooden toys at a study tour base in Yunhe, a county in Zhejiang province, in 2023. [Photo provided to China Daily] In Yunhe, a mountainous county in Zhejiang province ...

In the heart of Karnataka, artisans in Channapatna continue a centuries-old legacy of handcrafted wooden toys, using natural ...

The whirr of machines and smell of carved wood hangs in the air of the Indian toy workshop, a centuries-old art form still in ...