Kaspareks offers a unique line of rubber art stamps and collage elements – many created especially for knitters – for journals, stamping, gift enclosures, and for your heart-felt messages or private creations.
Our original designs are each drawn meticulously in pen-and-ink and converted to wood-mounted rubber stamps of the highest quality.
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The folk puppet Kasparek dates back several centuries. He was part of the touring puppet theater in what is now the Czech Republic – a theater that had become great entertainment by the eighteenth century. A hundred years later these marionette plays had established themselves as a folk tradition. Popularity grew so much that by the 1900s whole families would be involved in the production of a play and the scripts were known by heart. Kasparek, one of the nearly two dozen folk figures in the puppet troupe, wore a coxcomb cap and a belt of jingle bells; he was a bit of a clown, a jester with a trickster's heart and was greatly loved by children.