Painting with Plants Found Growing Wild on the Maker Faire Grounds
The next time you need a little paint or dye, you might just want to take a look at what’s growing in your back yard before you head to the store.
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How-To: Extract and Use Squid Ink
On the tail (or rather tentacle) end of Natural Materials month here on Makezine, we couldn’t leave the mighty squid out of the mix. Instructables’ own Christy Canida shared her easy technique for extracting squid ink and using it for printing or cooking in CRAFT Volume 04, and we’ve just made it available for you […]
How-To: Tell Mammoth Ivory from Elephant Ivory
Whatever the larger implications of the mammoth ivory trade may be, it has created a practical forensic problem for law enforcement. Buying mammoth ivory is, generally, legal, while buying elephant ivory, generally, is not. But when you’re a customs official staring at a crate full of tusks, how do you know which is which?
How-To: Carve a Stone Bowl
Want to make a gift to eternity? Nothing says forever quite like a hand-carved stone bowl.
How-To: New Paper from Old Paper
Though we’re constantly moving toward more electronic and less paper-based communication, we’ve all got paper we don’t need laying around, be it junk mail, newspaper, receipts, magazines, paper bags, books, or whatever else. If we’re lucky, it ends up in the recycling bin. What about giving old paper new life by making it into new […]
How-To: The Art of Lashing
If you can tie things together securely, you can make almost anything from practically nothing.
How Gemstones are Faceted
Ever wondered about how gems are cut and polished? Here’s a great 6-part video series that covers the basics of “meetpoint faceting,” as it’s known, from jeweler John Bailey.
