Welcome to The World Through Wooden Eyes, home to the John M Blundall Collection, the finest resource of inspirational, multicultural material for the development of creative puppet theatre in the UK.

The Ideas Store is managed by John M. Blundall, one of the world’s leading puppet masters, director, designer, craftsman, and creator of more than 80 major multimedia puppet theatre productions, and collaborator with national theatre, opera and ballet companies, and Stephen Foster, studio craftsman, designer and creator of puppets and masks.

 This site will be constantly changing. We will add more items of the collection and new pages on specific topics, as well as research documents.

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Save Kids TV Campaign

The recent Ofcom review of the future of children's television has made it starkly clear that production of children's programmes made in the UK about the lives and concerns of British Kids is in dramatic decline. The Shocking statistic is that of all the programmes shown on the many channels for children in this country only 1% are new programmes made in the UK! With the BBC cutting back, ITV, Channel 4 out of the market for kids content, and five scaling back it's programmes to cater for only pre-school children, there is very little programming being commissioned from producers in the UK who were renoknowed as some of the best of the world. Save Kid's TV has been working on a comprehensive plan to secure the future of quality media for Kids in the UK. To find out more about the campaign - sign the online petition and spread word of support please visit the following link -

http://www.savekidstv.org.uk

Important! Cannon Hill Auction Update

If you were one of the many successful bidders at the auction on Sunday the 30th March, then you may have an extra unwanted freebie courtesy of the MAC store. The conservation team at Glasgow Museums have found moth activity on a number of the puppet we have brought up from Birmingham. We would advise that you check any puppets you have bought for moths especially if they will be amongst other puppets or fabrics. Freezing is an effective way of killing off the moths but for more information you can follow this link

http://ezinearticles.com/?Protection-of-Garments-Against-Moths&id=360858

We Have Moved!

We are still in the Mitchell Library, but have moved to a different room. It is still in the original part of the library, but now at the opposite side of the building.

Click here for a map of the library.