Tracing back over a thousand years, leather puppetry grew as a traveling storytelling tradition used to perform epic tales and folklore.

Fascinatingly, puppets are made from translucent deerskin or goatskin, allowing vibrant colour projections during shadow performances.The craft produces jointed puppets dyed with natural pigments and detailed hand-cut patterns.It is valued for combining leather artistry, theatre, music, and narrative into a single cultural form.