Věra Vítová in 2023

Věra Vítová recording with students as part of Stories of Our Neighbours

Tomas Vydra, 1984

With grandchildren

Josef Mrňák in his workshop in Hejnice, August 2024

In the army with a trumpet

Josef Mrňák shows a wooden relief which he restored, and then he started carving

With his wife Jana, who travels with him to sell jewellery at markets around the country

At the market in Volary with his pupil, who sends him a special rubber disc with diamond dust every year for cutting jewellery

Josef Mrňák in the military band (first from the left, with trumpet) in a photo sent to him by the band leader in March 2024 (the back of the photo with the wishes is in the Additional Materials)

Painting by Josef Mrňák - view of Hejnice

Painting by Josef Mrňák - Hejnice

Painting by Josef Mrňák - Hejnice

Painting by Josef Mrňák - view of the Frýdlant battlements from Hejnice

Ink drawing by Josef Mrňák - spruce trees in the Jizerské hory infested by bark beetle in the 1980s

First carving product - jewellery box for my wife Jana, c. 1980

Wooden necklaces by Josef Mrňák

Wooden hairpins by Josef Mrňák

Wooden jewellery by Josef Mrňák

Wooden butterflies by Josef Mrňák

Jewellery designs - drawings on wood, from which Josef Mrňák will make a piece of jewellery

Tools in Josef Mrňák's workshop

Part of Josef Mrňák's wood collection - in total he has 460 species of trees and shrubs in his collection

Library made by Josef Mrňák

Chandelier made of 12 types of wood in the house of Josef Mrňák, who made it himself