How-To: Rag Shag Rug
This rag shag rug from Maggie Makes is a fun way to use small pieces of fabric, and can be a nice introduction to the techniques for creating your own latch hook-style projects.
Year: 2010
Line By Line Drawing Lessons
Line By Line, a new weekly essay and drawing lesson from James McMullen, makes me love the New York Times even more than I already did. (How fabulous that a news organization gives equal weight to aesthetic pleasures.) The column is “about rediscovering the lost skill and singular pleasure of drawing,” and does a beautiful […]
How ink is made
How ink is made! A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients–powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.
DIY bookscanner forums
MAKE subscriber Michael Zenner wrote in to tell us about the DIY Book Scanner community forums.
Inside the San Francisco Fire Department’s wooden ladder shop
San Francisco, as many of our regular readers will know from experience, is hilly, and can be windy. It has many narrow, winding roads and lots of low-hanging power lines. Which is why the SFFD is the only major US fire department still using wooden ladders–they don’t conduct electricity, and won’t fault a power line to ground in the event of an accident. The SFFD ladder shop made its first wooden ladder in 1917, and they’re still crankin’ em out today, using Douglas Fir timbers that are first aged 15 years in the shop itself. Very cool maker story and an excellently produced video from Adam Kaplan of ASK Media Productions. [via Gizmodo]
Making fire with Ikea products
If you’re ever stuck in an Ikea store during a zombocalypse, now you know how you can start a fire. [Via Ikeahacker]
Halloween O’Clock: Ghoul Chair from Ghostbusters
It’s October 1st, so we have 30 days to get our costumes and homes ready for my favorite holiday Halloween! In today’s CRAFT Video we were inspired by the classic movie Ghostbusters and took an upholstered chair and transformed it into one that was over-taken by the ghoul, Zuul. Scary stuff, plus a fun photo […]