The orange-clad William Tell figure has a bow and an apple with an arrow through it; the green Jager (hunter) carries a wooden rifle ... which hand-makes each nutcracker to order.

Today, Myers’ whimsical wooden nutcrackers, small animals and angel ... One of Mary Myers’ hand-carved pieces of folk art. Courtesy of Mary Myers While business has slowed in recent years ...

Also hand-crafting highly detailed wooden nutcrackers (among the bunch ... a departure from the more highly embellished, hand carved and detailed. “And, of course, we always like to have ...

Instead, this master craftsman creates nutcrackers. He is a member of Seiffen's Folk Art Cooperative, one of dozens of companies in the town producing wooden nutcrackers, Christmas ornaments and toys.

Hand-carved wooden miners for private use followed. “Soon there were carved mining people and light-carrying angels in many homes, and the little pipe-smoking men and the nutcracker belonged to ...

From hand-carved wooden nutcrackers to scrumptious stollen, there are many German Christmas traditions which have been around for centuries. But do you know the meanings behind them all?

To celebrate the holiday season, the Heritage Museum of Montgomery has on display the Nutcracker collection of a former Conroe educator and a hand ... was carved from white mountain ash wood ...