When exploring sites, check for “galleries” or “portfolios”. Also look for videos.
In most cases you can order items on-line
Many sites have links to other related sites
CABARET MECHANICAL THEATRE
www.cabaret.co.uk [automata, books, cut-outs, wooden kits, videos, blog, etc.]
Automata Links
www.kugelbahn.ch/3_link_automata.htm [just a big page of links]
MAD Museum (Mechanical Art & Design Museum) [all sorts of mechanical and kinetic work]
www.themadmuseum.co.uk [nice educational and historical section]
Flying Pig
www.flying-pig.co.uk [paper kits and cut-outs, books, visual illustration of mechanisms]
Timberkits
www.timberkits.com [wooden kits to assemble, or buy already assembled]
Hitchcocks
www.avac77.dsl.pipex.com [automata and folk toys and a few paper kits]
Automata
[a “help site” with an introduction to automata with good illustrations of mechanisms]
Kinetic Mechanized Toys and Automata
www.thelivingweb.net/kinetic_toys_sculpture.html [all kinds of links]
Automata and Mechanical Toys
Machines Table of Contents
www.galaxy.net/~k12/machines/index.shtml
[basic information on mechanics (designed for school kids)]
Automatomania
www.automatomania.com [passionate restorers and dealers of antique automata]
Paperpino
www.paperpino.net [paper kits (some free)]
CLASSICAL AUTOMATA
Francois Junod
http://people.timezone.com/mdisher/decorte/junod/junodpart1.htm [full-scale automata]
AMERICAN MAKERS
Dan Torpey
http://barkingdogsautomata.homestead.com/home.html
Dug North
Tom Haney
John Morgan
http://www.auburn.edu/~morgaj3/
Thomas Kuntz
CANADIAN MAKERS
Al Conquergood
David Dumbrel
BRITISH MAKERS
Keith Newstead
Neil Hardy
www.fabulousanimals.com/default.asp
Carlos Zapata
www.carloszapataautomata.co.uk
Philip Lowndes
Wanda Sowry
Jan Zalud
Robert Race
Ian McKay
FRENCH MAKERS
Pierre Mayer
JAPANESE AUTOMATA WEBSITES
Karakuri Ningyo
www.karakuri.info [the history and tradition of the Karakuri (Japanese automata)]
Yoshihiro Banba
AUSTRALIAN MAKERS
Archer’s Arcadia - David Archer -Australian