Traditional glove puppets from the Beng Geok Hong Potehi troupe in Penang. While facial features and hairstyles indicate the role types and age of each puppet, the colours and designs of the costumes, ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Residents and visitors of New Taipei will be able to relive the magic of Taiwanese glove puppetry on Sunday (Nov. 22) at the Xinzhuang Puppetry Culture Day celebration. As part ...

Chen Xihuang, an 85-year-old glove puppetry inheritor, shows his collection of glove puppets in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 23, 2016. Chen began learning glove puppetry when he was 13 years ...

With small moves of his fingers, palms and wrist, Chen Jintang of East China's Fujian Province makes a glove puppet on his hand spring to life, cough like an old man, or giggle like an innocent child.

The head is carved from wood. Mechanisms in the hollow head move the eyes and mouth. The main rod, made either of wood or bamboo, runs through the neck to the head, and the length varies. The hand ...

A balloon became a fish, a penguin, a dolphin, a baby... And making it attain these shapes was Roberto White, a puppeteer from Spain. All he used was a pair of white surgical gloves. As the audience ...

A Sooty glove puppet, brought home by a stagehand on the top children's TV show as a gift for his son, has been sold at auction for more than £1,000. Brian Kent, who built sets for The Sooty Show in ...