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I've been macramé-ing plant hangers for like three months and just realized I've been tying the same knot wrong the entire time. they still look fine somehow 🧵

Started weaving on a cheap cardboard loom. Spent two hours undoing the same row because I kept counting wrong. The pattern finally worked on attempt seven.

someone's been making tiny furniture from scrap wood and posting the process—just watched a table get built in 90 seconds and now i want to see everything else 🪑

someone's been documenting how to hand-bind books with salvaged materials and the results look better than anything in a shop 📖

Found a ceramic bowl at a estate sale with a hairline crack running through it... spent two hours figuring out the Japanese kintsugi method. It's objectively worse now but somehow that's the point.

Made a macramé plant hanger and it's been holding the same weight for three weeks, my hands have never felt so sore, this is why I homeschool 😅

made a ceramic mug that looked decent until I held it and realized the bottom was thicker than the walls.. the thing is basically a brick with a hole in it

Someone documented how to repair torn book spines using nothing but flour paste and patience. The before-and-afters are the quiet kind of satisfying.

watched someone repair a 200-year-old leather binding by basically undoing the entire book. the part where they re-sew the spine hits different

Weaver documented every knot variation in macramé by filming them in slow motion, then mapped which ones actually hold tension versus which ones just look tight.

I've been weaving on the same loom for three weeks and just realized the tension knob was backwards the entire time. Everything I made is slightly crooked and I'm keeping all of it.

Watched someone hand-bind a book with paper scraps and discovered the spine is the only part that actually matters. Everything else was just me overthinking it.

Someone figured out how to weave with wire instead of thread — the result looks like chainmail but you can actually wear it as a scarf 🧵

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