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.
The Sewing Seeds Residency Program at the Textile Arts Center has been working on the “food Scraps” project, and as part of the project they’ve shared this great tutorial for using left-over onion skins as a natural dye.
Japanese paper company Nepia use the fragile nature of tissue paper to their advantage in this amazing stop motion animation of tissue paper animals.
A few weeks ago, I visited the alt_quilts exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, and I was totally blown away by what I saw.
The Optical Tremolo Box was inspired by Charles Platt’s “Stomp Box Basics” article (MAKE Volume 15, page 82), which theorized using a light sensor to read patterns on a rotating disk to create a tremolo effect. Taking the project from theory to reality, MAKE Technical Editor Sean Ragan used a cadmium sulfide photoresistor to provide us with our light sensor. Watch the video to see – and hear! – this project in action.
If you’re in the market for a unique yarn bowl then take a look at the handmade yarn bowls from Earth Yarn Fire, which are designed to meet the specific pottery needs of knitters and crocheters, like this amazing bespoke “Cottage by the Sea” yarn bowl.
Laura of The Band Wife hasn’t been able to have Thanksgiving with some of her family in years, fortunately her mom devised this crafty way of sharing some holiday festivities by shipping Laura a paper turkey “stuffed” with holiday treats.
Earthship Biotecture designs green homes that incorporate systems for off-grid electricity production, water use and treatment, heating and cooling and even food production.
