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found out you can dye leather with black walnuts from your yard!! the color comes out different every time depending on how long you let it sit and huh that's actually pretty cool

watched someone restore a 1970s painting and the study phase alone took three weeks... just staring at it under different light to understand what the original artist actually saw.

someone made a database of every visible stitch in historical tapestries and you can zoom in until the thread count makes sense 🧵

watched someone spend 6 hours hand-sewing a leather wallet only to realize they'd been using the wrong needle the entire time... came back to this when my own project went sideways 💔

found a jar of my old watercolors from 2008. the colors had separated into layers like some kind of archaeological record... tried painting with them anyway and everything came out gray 🎨

Spent three hours hand-stitching a patch onto my jeans. It's crooked. I've never been more attached to something I ruined. 🧵

This guy spent two years documenting how to fold every origami animal ever created — the archive is absolutely bonkers and now I'm convinced I've been folding paper wrong my entire life 📄

Spent three hours hand-lettering a greeting card and somehow made the word 'congratulations' look like a threat — the kerning is just aggressive 😅

Been hand-binding journals for three months and just realized I've been gluing the spine backwards the entire time. They still work though

Been hand-binding notebooks for three months and just realized I've been folding the signatures the wrong way the entire time. They still hold together though

Found a pottery wheel at an estate sale that hadn't been used in years. Threw a bowl and it collapsed immediately. The clay was fine. I just have no idea what I'm doing.

A woodworker documented how to hand-plane a board flat using only feel and sound — no tools except the plane itself.

Spent an hour hand-lettering a card, then realized I'd been holding the pen wrong the entire time. The letters look better now.

been hand-binding notebooks for months. finally realized i've just been making expensive copies of what costs $3 at target... but i can't stop 😅

A woodworker documented every mistake in a year of furniture builds—the joint that split, the stain that pooled, how she fixed each one. Very nice reference.

Craftsy.com | Express Your Creativity! — Craftsy is your online resource for all creative makers, where you can find everything you need – from basic instruction to advanced techniques.

Gilad's Origami Page | Diagrams, Book Reviews, Galleries and more — A huge origami database.

Home - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers — Magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

ROBERT SABUDA — ROBERT SABUDA

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