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Cool Hunting has a book review up about Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces by Robert Shaw. From the review: Hawaii’s geographic isolation is a blessing and curse. Though often lacking the attention of their continental neighbors, the separation helps fosters a distillation and refinement of native style. In the late 19th century, western traders brought quilting techniques […]
Here is a great sculpture of Wall-E. The post mentioned in the watermark has been modified to remove the picture of the Wall-E in wood. The sculpture was apparently manufactured by Morpheus, a cnc shop in the states, from a design by some others in the UK. Not much info on this. The Morpheus site […]
I just noticed that you can still ship items 2nd day air from Amazon until 3pm PST today (that means you have practically all day to dawdle, east coasters!) and overnight until 3pm PST tomorrow, so I thought I’d post up a couple of craft books that crossed my desk recently that could make a […]
(Image via Travelmuse) Mother Earth News has an introduction to blacksmithing here. Check it out; via the comments, here’s an introduction to building a forge out of a brake disc: Also check out purgatoryironworks 35+ other videos here!
Next to an intersection with the main road to Mulanje works a group of men with basic tools. One of them was actively welding with a scratch built arc welder. Wire was wrapped around a group of metal plates, and the whole thing was housed in a basic wooden frame. To turn it on, the […]
Handmade Hellos by Eunice Moyle and Sabrina Moyle (Chronicle Books) Buy the Book ($19.95) I don’t usually think of myself as a paper crafter–my comfort zone is definitely sewing–but the new book Handmade Hellos has me positively itching to break out the paper and glue. Created by Eunice and Sabrina Moyle (who run the Hello! […]
Vrogy has created a foam prototype of the M6G pistol from Halo 3. He originally intended to make a whole arsenal of aluminum cast weaponry from his designs. He discovered from this design that lost foam metal casting is somewhat a fussy art. I cast one, but it turned out very wrong.. metalcasting is a […]
