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    The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use
    The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use
    The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use
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    The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use

    By W. A. G. Bradman

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    This vintage book is comprehensive and beginner-friendly guide to making wooden toys, with directions for making puppets, a rocking horse, model buildings, and much more. Making wooden toys can be a cost-effective and rewarding process for both parent and child. Profusely illustrated and full of simple instructions, this timeless volume is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in hand-making toys from wood, and would make for a fantastic addition to family collections. Contents include: "Toy Farm”, “Toy Station”, “Toy Garage”, “Desk and Chair”, “Rocking Horse”, “Puppet Theatre”, “Puppets”, and “Toy Shop”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of toys.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 14, 2016
    ISBN9781473355088
    The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use

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      The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use - W. A. G. Bradman

      The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use

      by

      W. A. G. Bradman

      Copyright © 2011 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      A History of Toys

      A toy, broadly speaking, is any item that can be used for play – generally by children and pets. Toys and games are most frequently used (consciously or not) as an enjoyable means of training the young for life in society. The young use toys and play to discover their identity, help their bodies grow strong, learn cause and effect, explore relationships, and practice skills they will need as adults. Adults use toys and play to form and strengthen social bonds, teach, reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies, explore relationships and decorate their living spaces. Many items are designed to serve as toys (often purely as collectors’ items), but goods produced for other purposes can also be used. For instance, a small child may pick up a household item and fly it through the air as to pretend that it is an airplane. Today, another consideration is ‘interactive digital entertainment’ – a wholly novel development which is quickly changing the world of toys as we know it.

      The origin of toys is prehistoric; dolls representing infants, animals, and soldiers, as well as representations of tools used by adults are readily found at archaeological sites. The origin of the word toy is unknown, but it is believed that it was first used in the fourteenth century. Toys excavated from the Indus valley civilization (3000-1500 BCE) include small carts, whistles shaped like birds, and toy monkeys which could slide down a string. All of these earliest toys are made from materials readily found in nature, such as rocks, sticks and clay. The first ‘sophisticated’ toys were found in Egypt – where children played with dolls that had wigs and movable limbs which were made from stone, pottery, and wood. In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, children played with dolls made of wax or terracotta, sticks, bows and arrows, and yo-yos. When Greek children, especially girls, came of age it was customary for them to sacrifice the toys of their childhood to the gods. On the eve of their wedding, young girls around fourteen would offer their dolls in a temple as a rite of passage into adulthood.

      Toys, of course, do not merely involve dolls and replicas; they train the brain and the body as well as the imagination. The oldest known mechanical puzzle also comes from Greece and appeared in the Third century BC, it consists of a square divided into fourteen parts, and the aim was to create different shapes from these pieces. In Iran puzzle-locks were made as early as the seventeenth century AD. Such examples are anomalies though, and before the enlightenment era, toys were a rarity. This changed with novel attitudes towards

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