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Find Good Wooden Toys

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Our wooden toys are constructed of the finest quality Vermont hard rock maple accented with occasional contrasting tones of Pennsylvania cherry, birch, oak, and mahogany. They are finished with our own special nontoxic blend of hard-drying stains and sealers which protect and enhance the natural beauty of the woodgrain. Our toys are displayed both in toy shops and in galleries, and recommended by respected books and periodicals which site our creations’ furniture-quality craftsmanship and durability within the playspace. Our toys have been acclaimed both in museum exhibitions and art festivals for their originality and integrity of design. Many of our toys are designed to be ridden and all are created to endure the rugged play of several generations of children.

Vermont Wooden Toys celebrates 30 years of toymaking with the advent of the millennium. We enjoy the continued endorsement of our efforts from repeat patrons, as well as recommendation from teaching and childraising professionals such as the noted child psychologist and author, Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson. Come and visit our Norwich workshop and store on-line as we carry on the Vermont folk art tradition. Choose from the categories offered below to browse through our workshop and examine our creations up close.

What is Knitting needle

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

A knitting needle or knitting pin is a tool in hand-knitting to produce knitted fabrics. They generally have a long shaft and taper at their end, but they are not nearly as sharp as sewing needles. Their purpose is two-fold. The long shaft holds the active (unsecured) stitches of the fabric, to prevent them from unravelling, whereas the tapered ends are use to form new stitches. Most commonly, a new stitch is formed by inserting the tapered end through an active stitch, catching a loop (also called a bight) of fresh yarn and drawing it through the stitch; this secures the initial stitch and forms a new active stitch in its place. In specialized forms of knitting, however, the needle may be passed between active stitches being held on another needle, or indeed between/through inactive stitches that have been knit previously.

The size of a needle is described first by its radius, and secondarily by its length. The size of the new stitch is determined in large part by the radius of the knitting needle used to form it, because that affects the length of the yarn-loop drawn through the previous stitch. Thus, large stitches can be made with large needles, whereas fine knitting requires fine needles. In most cases, the knitting needles being used in hand-knitting are of the same radius; however, in uneven knitting, needles of different sizes may be used. A similar effect on stitch size can be obtained, however, by wrapping the yarn multiple times about a single needle. The length of a needle determines how many stitches it can hold at once; for example, very large projects such as a shawl with hundreds of stitches might require a long needle. Various sizing systems for needles are in common use.

Knitting needles come in various types. Perhaps the most common is a pair of long, straight, rigid needles that are capped at one end. A circular needle is another type, in which two tapered rigid ends are connected by a long, flexible cord; the tapered ends are used for creating new stitches, whereas the flexible cord holds the active stitches. A third type is a shorter, straight, rigid needle that is tapered at both ends; such double-pointed needles are usually used in sets of four or five, and most often for circular knitting in which the radius is very small, e.g., sweater sleeves or socks. A fourth type of knitting needle is the very short, double-pointed cable needle, which is used to hold stitches while the order of stitches being knit is permuted in cable knitting.

What is Wooden Toys

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

wooden doll house
We produce a wide range of wooden toys from china such as wooden cars, wooden planes, wooden trains and wooden motorcycles, wooden doll house, wooden education toy, etc.

Wooden Horse
1) Material: made of wood. 2) The product is reached the standard of EN71 or ASTM. 3) Wooden horse can improve the children’s imagination and the ability of hand-acting.
 

Tumbling Tower
1) Setting up: the blocks need to be placed neatly and squarely, three to a layer as if building a house. 2) The game: every player takes turn to throw the dice. Note the color shown on the dice, use the stick provided to pull out one same color block from the tower. 3) Tactics: during the game, other competing players and spectators can distract the player who is attempting to pull out a block, thus making the game even more nerve-wrecking. 4) Winning and losing: any player who causes the pile to collapse is out of the game. The remaining players then can play additional rounds or start a new game. 5) Penalties for losing: before the game, players may agree on penalties for losing, e.g. sing a song, do somersaults, treat the other players to snacks, etc., This will make the game more interesting and competitive

Wooden Dice
We make wooden dice, playing dice, game dice. Our wooden dice size are from 1cm to 5cm. Our dice can with Dots, Letters, Numbers or Patterns imprinting on. With printed logos on the wooden dice, it is good for promotions.

Labyrinth
This is the high-quality, old-fashioned test of hand-eye coordination that every generation enjoys. At first glance, it’s a simple game: a flat wooden maze with holes suspended within a wooden box. The maze can be tilted in two directions by moving two knobs at the sides, and the object is to get a tiny silver metal ball through the maze without it falling into one of several dozen holes. Simple? Yes. But it’s decidedly more difficult than it sounds. The box and the maze frames are made from smoothly sanded natural wood. Different sizes available upon request.

Wooden Toys & Gifts
The products include xylophones, wooden blocks, edu-cational toys, wooden vehicle toys, doll houses, mini furniture, and associated items.

Wood Rubber Stamp
1) Wood: pine, basswood, birch wood. 2) Rubber: many color choices. 3) Size: many size choices. 4) Sharp: square, round and many others

Bamboo Toys
1) We supply toys made of wood and bamboo. 2) Various designs as snake, fish and centipede available. 3) Can produce as per customer’s requirements

Wood Toy Animal Doll
Push bottom toy made of wood. Head and legs can be movable when push the bottom. Bottom diameter 5cm. Bottom height 3cm

Sudoku
Wooden sudoku made of quality rubber wood, 81pcs counters with impressed number in 2 colors,100pcs puzzles and answers booklet included, packed in a gift box.
Wooden Music Box
1) Material: MDF wood. 2) Windmill at the front. 3) When the music plays, many tunes are available

Rubber Wood Toy & Household
We supply rubber wood products from china. 1) Wooden toys as rocking horse set, wooden plane, educational set, mini children chair. wooden toy product for children 3-5 years old ; wooden toy product for children 5-8 years old. 2) Wooden kitchen as salad bowl, spoon, tray, Rubber wood block knife set, rubber wood salt shakers, pepper mills etc. made of rubber wood. light and durable. very high quality and beautiful handicraft

Wooden Railway Set
This is a wooden toy. It’s made of wood. And it’s according to the international standard, no toxin. There are many kinds and styles. It’s a good toy for your children who are older than three years old. And it is also fit for you. It will bring your children and you happiness and educate your children. It is an educational toy.

Wooden Blackboard
Features: 1) The chalkboard and base can be discerptible. 2) Material: pine, birch and rubber wood available. 3) Dimensions (L x W x H): 50 x 30 x 0.4(H)cm

Wooden Falling Down
1) Material: wood. 2) Products size: 11cm x 7.5cm. 3) We can supply various wooden Christmas decorations with cute designs

High Quality Natural Bamboo Hangers
High Quality Natural Bamboo Hangers: The size for adult or children, suit for clothes, pants, skirts etc… The colors and size of each item can be made as customer’s request. Your own logo imprinted on bamboo hanger is acceptable.

Hand Painted Wooden Toys
We supply a large variety of lacqered wood hand painted toys like spinning tops, birds, puzzels, board games, colored russian dolls, animal figures, etc… Lacquered wooden toys is one of our premiers products. Sourcing wooden toys from artisans directly makes sure that we offer it at the most affordable price. Our wooden toys uses non-toxic paint to ensure safety for childrens.

Wooden Toy
1) Animal shape manikin. 2) Manikins are perfectly proportioned, with the added feature of flexible hips. 3) Made of boxwood or Chinese hardwood

Wooden Bounce Bike
Wooden bounce bike made by nature birch plywood, vanish painted, soft handgrips with safe wooden end, rubber inflated tire, PAK free, plastic wheel and wooden wheel optional, 90% KD for easy assembling, hard wood seat optional with fabric cushion, solid spring under seat, excellent damping effect, quality ball bearing.

Finger Puppet
1) You can put the first finger into the puppet and talk a vivid story to the children. 2) It can lead them to a beautiful story world. 3) This product is combined with nature wood, cloth and plush things together

3D Puzzle Animal Wooden Toy
3D puzzle, wooden toy, wooden puzzle, Intelligent toy, educational toy, wooden craft model. Diversity of designs available with: Animals, Dinosaurs, Plane, Cars, Birds. The puzzles are not only for fun and game of children

Wooden Rocking Horse
1) Man can sit on the back of horse. 2) Press his left and right ear, it’s head and tail can sway, and also could give a sound like horse. 3) 3 colors available

Wooden Intellective Toys
Tangram is an ancient Oriental toy which has 7 pieces, 5 triangles in different size, 1 square and 1 parallelogram. The objective of this game is to form a given shape using all 7 pieces. Thousands of shapes can be made by moving simple shaped pieces around. This puzzle game is specially great for children to practice matching skill.

Wooden Train
This is educational toys for children, the product has many function. The model product is train set toy, including trains, tools. Box can either store train set, or be a stool for the kid sitting when playing the game. Train sets are made of wood.

Wooden Fruit Toy
1) Different material available, cedar, pine, birch, beech, acaroid wood or as per customer’s request. 2) Different sizes available or as per customers’ demands. 3) Logo on products available. 4) Different packing available: white box, color box

Wooden Toy
1) Material: various solid woods. 2) The products of our company are wooden crafts which are very fashionable and popular in the international market. 3) We can supply all kinds of wooden toys at very competitive prices. There are plenty of styles and series to choose, including wooden cars, wooden rocking horses, wooden puzzles, wooden board games, children’s wooden blocks, doll houses and wooden animal series. 4) Easy for children to put the toys together, so this kind of toys possesses features of knowledgeable, interesting, and ornamentation and, working to stimulate growing children’s intelligence. 5) We could also manufacture according to customers’ designs. 6) More sizes and designs available

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Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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