Custom Puppets
Beautiful custom puppets handmade to order in Edinburgh
Custom Puppets Made to Order
Handmade in Edinburgh by Artisans
If you’re looking for a custom puppet built to order, our specialist puppet makers at Picture to Puppet can help. Each of our bespoke puppets is hand made in our Musselburgh workshop to customers’ exact specification. Our unique custom puppets can be based on a picture, a photo or a description. We create likenesses of people or animals from photographs, build character puppets based on illustrations and design puppets to spec.
Ours is a highly personal bespoke service, and we can make your puppet to fit your exact requirements. We offer a huge range of fabrics and unlimited sizes and styles to suit your needs. Our makers are highly skilled in capturing illustrative style and personal charisma 3D form.
We make custom hand puppets, glove puppets, rod puppets, string puppets, latex puppets and more.
Hand Puppets
Our custom hand puppets (also known as muppets or talking puppets) have a structured head and a moving mouth that you operate with one hand.
FInd Out More →
Glove Puppets
Our custom glove puppets have soft glove shaped bodies and have movable heads and arms that you operate with your fingers.
Find Out More →
String Puppets
Our handmade string puppets can be made from wood, composition, textiles, plastics and a huge range of other materials.
Find Out More →
Likeness Puppets
We can build a puppet that looks like you, a celebrity, your loved one, or anyone at all! These can be made up as any type of puppet, or as a soft toy.
Find Out More →
Hand Puppets
Our custom hand puppets have a hand operated moveable mouth. They can be made in any size or style.
They are often made from soft materials ,such as soft foams and textiles). They can be full body or half body (waist up).
Optional extras include arm rods, blinking eyes, moving eyebrows and wiggling ears.
They can take the form of a likeness puppet, based on a real person; an animal, an illustration or a child’s drawing; we also offer a design service.
Our hand puppets are guaranteed for 5 years.
String Puppets
Take your puppetry ideas to the next level with an exquisite custom handmade marionette! Whether it’s for a theatre show, an outreach project or simply a beautiful and unique item for your home, we can design and make the right marionette for you.
Simply send us a picture or description of your character and let us know what movements you’d like to prioritise, and we will figure out how to make your marionette work for you.
Our handmade string puppets can be made from wood, composition, textiles, plastics and a huge range of other materials and techniques. if you’re looking for a particular finish or texture, just let us know!
Glove Puppets
Our bespoke glove puppets have a basic glove shape and a moving head and arms which you can operate with your fingers and thumb. They tend to be smaller and less structured than hand puppets. They can have a soft fabric head, or the head can be made of latex or hard materials.
As well as being a cheaper option than hand puppets, our fabric glove puppets are machine washable, and very easy to operate, even for young children. They are also lightweight and easy to fold.
Likeness Puppets
Our bestselling custom likeness puppets are used all over the world by ventriloquists, film makers, TV shows and families. You might well have seen some of our lookalike puppets on TV. We can build a puppet that looks like you, a celebrity, your loved one, or anyone at all!
Just send us a photo of the person and we can make a bespoke caricature puppet in their image. You can choose what clothes they wear, what moving parts they have and what hairstyle they have. Everything about your lookalike puppet will be uniquely crafted to your specification.
Our Likeness puppets can be made up as hand puppets, glove puppets, string puppets and more.
Latex Puppets
Latex Hand Puppets
Latex has the advantage of being seamless, and very detailed hyperealistic skin texture can be achiveed.
This is a time consuming multi stage process involving sculpting, mould making, casting and painting. Our latex heads start from £1300.
Get in Touch
Request a free, no obligation quote for your project by filling out our quote request form.
