Paper Castle
This incredible intricately designed paper castle was created over the span of 4 years by Japanese art student Wataru Itou. This is so exquisite, so beautiful, and SO gives a new meaning to the word patience.
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.
How-To: Crochet Box of Chocolates
I’ve never been a big heart-shaped-box-of-chocolates-on-Valentine’s-Day kind of gal, but this super cute crochet pattern from Red Heart Yarn may change all that. It would be funny to color the polyfill inside to correspond with different flavors, and stitch a stuck-my-thumb-in-it-to-see-what’s-inside hole on the bottom of each piece. Related: What Crafters REALLY Want for Valentine’s […]
Turning A One-Piece Wooden Lamp Shade From a Tree Section
Kiwi master craftsman Sören Berger is a woodturner, teacher, and inventor with 35 years at the lathe. It shows. In this amazing and slightly terrifying video, you’ll see him turn a giant tree trunk section that starts with the bark still on it, inside and out, until it’s perfectly smooth and translucent-thin. Inspiring and wonderful. […]
DIY No-Sew Caftan Video
For all of our non-sewers and sewers alike, here is a DIY caftan you can make without sewing skills. Caftans are free-flowing long tunics that originated in the middle east centuries ago. They have re-emerged throughout fashion history many times, most notably in the late 60’s-early 70’s (think Mrs. Roper and Maude). I, myself, LOVE […]
DIY Pearl Hair Combs
Anne, of Flax and Twine, shows us how to make these beautiful pearl hair combs. Beautiful!
Seriously Overengineered Mousetrap
Jake Easton’s Better Mousetrap is electrically and pneumatically powered, weighs almost six pounds, features a key lock switch and a manual safety, and strikes with 102 pounds of force. I think they foleyed that crunching noise in the video, however. Sounds like a bag of Fritos, to me.
How-To: Embroidered Note Valentine
This embroidered note valentine from StitchPunk, the Urban Threads blog, is like a fun, grownup version of passing notes in class. Plus, if you’ve got stitching skills but less-than-pretty handwriting, you can pick up the pattern for their note design right on the site. More: Project: Sewing Kit Valentines Card @Craftzine.com blog What Crafters REALLY […]