Craft
All about crafts, handmade products and traditional techniques
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Textile Toy Tutorial: How to Make A Basic Pattern Step By Step
Learn to draw a freehand pattern for textile toys with Piti Piti Textile toys, by definition, call for a freer design and shapes that give a handmade feel. For this reason, the best technique for creating their patterns is freehand. In this tutorial, Omar Gad (@pitipiti), founder of the Piti Piti workshop in Mexico City, teaches us the simple steps to make patterns with few materials and a little creativity. Discover more in the video:
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Upcycling Tutorial: Clothes Printing
Learn how to revamp your clothes with your own designs and stencils, with Krizia Robustella Transforming used clothes into something new and original ranks high on online do it yourself wish lists. There are many techniques that allow us to give new life to a t-shirt, a pair of trousers or any other worn out piece of clothing. Few, however, are as fun as using a stencil and spray paint. Create drawings that will decorate your clothes, transform them into templates, and add different colors and textures through simple exercises that will lead to extremely varied results. Krizia Robustella (@kriziarobustella), a fashion designer with her own brand based in Barcelona, shows us how in the video below:
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Macramé Tutorial: Create Your Step-by-Step Necklace
Learn how to make a macramé necklace from scratch with Fibra Bohemia
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Ceramics Tutorial: Painting Your Final Piece
Learn how to design and paint directly onto your ceramic pieces, with Chichinabo A useful way of making sure you design fits your ceramic pieces is to design directly onto the piece. It is ideal for use on 3D pieces as it gives a very real vision of the finish our work will have and allows us to design to scale straight onto complicated pieces. Patricia, creator of the brand CHICHINABO INC (@chichinabo_inc) teaches us step by step how to design onto our ceramic pieces and how to transfer that design to paper to be able to digitize it later. Watch the tutorial here:
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Embroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners
Learn how to use a hoop, thread, and needle to begin embroidering, with Kseniia Guseva Embroidery can make everything from your empty wall to the hole in your sneakers that bit more beautiful. While it may seem intimidating at first, learning the basic steps of this ancient craft will open up a world of upcycling and patchwork possibilities. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown St Petersburg—as well as feeding her other passion: upcycling. Here she shares a few basic embroidery steps to help you get started, from how to set up your hoop to the various ways you thread the needle, that will help you start your embroidery journey right. Learn more in the video below:
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5 Reasons to Learn Draping
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Ceramics Tutorial: How to Add Texture to Your Plant Pots
Learn the techniques you need to add the texture and decorations that give your ceramics plenty of personality, with La Pomona
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