Craft & Design

From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.

Bias Tape Holder Idea

Bias Tape Holder Idea

I found myself drooling over the photos of bias tape Dana, of Dana Made It, has been working on. She also has a good idea for storing bias tape you’ve made yourself – upcycle cardboard pieces with a colorful piece of paper and wind the tape around it. Simple and useful. You can use bias […]

Carpet Graffiti

Carpet Graffiti

This stunning carpet is one of several works by Azerbaijanian artist Faig Ahmed, whose work, “explores [the] composition of a traditional Azerbaijanian carpet by disjointing its structure and placing its canonic elements into open space.” Carpet is more a time structure than a graphical one. Initially it was considered as a sophisticated sort of writing […]

Margot Tenenbaum Embroidery

Margot Tenenbaum Embroidery

We’ve posted before about Lucky Jackson’s 365 Lucky Days embroidery project, but I wanted to share with you this week’s theme: Margot Tenenbaum. The Royal Tenenbaums is a favorite film of mine, and I think she captures the despondent and angst-ridden character of Margot Tenenbaum nicely. More: Living In: The Royal Tenenbaums