Stock Photo - 11 December 2019, Saxony, Seiffen: Wooden toy maker and tire lathe operator Christian Werner inspects a spruce tire on the lathe in his workshop in Seiffen. Special turning tools are used to turn the profile of a figure into the wet wood. Only after splitting does the silhouette of the figure reveal itself. The blanks are later carved, glued and painted. The technology in the small workshop with its six employees is still the same as it was 200 years ago when the turning of tyres in the Erzgebirge mountains was started. The craft in Seiffen is now unique in the world and is only practiced by a handful of wooden toy makers. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Seiffen/Saxony/Germany