All about crafts, handmade products and traditional techniques
Learn this simple method for making 3D paper craft petals, with Eileen Handmade. Paper flowers capture the beauty of nature and survive a lot longer than your average bouquet. Eileen Ng (@eileen_handmade), also known as Eileen Handmade, is a craft artist and maker who has been creating floral installations for years. In this tip, she shares a simple technique to make paper petals with volume.
Crochet artist and character designer Marcelo Javier Cortés, a.k.a. Príncipe del Crochet, shares his favorite projects Crocheting is a hand knitting technique that is gaining interest among contemporary creatives. Starting in the craft of crochet is easy, and there are lots of possibilities. One of the most attractive projects you can do using a crochet hook is ‘amigurumi.’ You can create cute, three-dimensional characters by crocheting them as if you were sculpting with yarn.
Learn useful and creative techniques from these experts and give your clothes a new style
Learn how to make a vest, step by step, with this pattern in three different sizes created by Ali Maravillas Do you want to crochet with your own hands? Choosing an inspiring pattern is essential for you to find (and keep) your motivation levels high. To help you on your way, Nordic-style crochet designer and yarnbomber Alicia Recio Rodríguez (@AliMaravillas) shares her pattern for knitting a Hygge vest. One of those pieces that never go out of style, the vest's cozy, light, and cool design will keep you crocheting for hours and hours.
Learn how to preserve dried flowers in resin to create jewelry, with Mia Winston-Hart Epoxy resin makes it possible to mold real flowers into beautiful pieces of art and jewelry that can last a lifetime. Educator and designer Mia Winston-Hart (@miawinstonhart) has made a name for herself by creating one-of-a-kind pieces with epoxy resin. In this tutorial, she shares how you can use it to create your own jewelry with dried flowers.
Caro Bello is a graphic designer and punch-needle embroidery expert. She tells us about her working process and creative routine in this Domestika Diary
Interdisciplinary crochet artist and Poetryarn founder, Ángela Cayero, faces the Domestika Challenge: crocheting with her eyes closed!
Create amazing garments, decorations, toys, and functional objects with your own hands Some people think crocheting is an activity just for older people, but the reality is that contemporary artists from all over the world are reinventing and rediscovering it every day. Crochet is very easy to learn, and it’s also a relaxing artisanal technique for those who love anything fabric and textiles related. These 6 experts share with you the secrets behind their modern creations, so you too can become an experienced crocheter and create your own toys, objects, garments, or decorations.
Learn to create a stencil out of homemade materials with Texture Factory If you're looking for an easy activity you can do using materials you already have at home, or perhaps to carry out with the little artists you have running around, you've come to the right place! Hi! I'm Gabriela Rodríguez, founder of the creative studio, Fábrica de Texturas (@fabricadetexturas), which specializes in DIY projects and recovers traditional and artisanal techniques to give them a unique, contemporary twist. In this blog post, I share a step-by-step process for making a template you can use to create hand-stamped pieces like this one:
Do you want to create your own leather bag? Start with these patterns from the expert craftsman Gustavo Annoni If you are seduced by artisan making, these sketches and patterns for making bags will serve as a guide to start creating something new with your own hands. These are three sketches and patterns offered by Gustavo Annoni (@gus_annoni), an expert craftsman founder of Annoni Bags. Gustavo has made his handcrafted designs for bags and purses known around the world.
Learn this simple technique for making a wool pom-pom with spot pattern in the centre, with Christie Leech You might think pom-poms are only good for the ends of wooly hats. However, with a little bit of ingenuity, they can be used as an exciting and vibrant medium in textile art. Christie Leech (@sewyeah) is an author, maker, and stylist who specialises in the creation of art with pom-poms. In this tutorial, she shares a simple method for creating a pom-pom with a spot pattern in the centre from scratch.
Portuguese artist Marisa Clemente shares a list of artists who inspire her every day Polymer clay, also known as FIMO, is a highly versatile modeling material. One of its key characteristics is how malleable it is, making it easy to reshape or make alterations to your creation as you sculpt. After your polymer clay piece has been baked and cooled, it can be sanded, polished, drilled, and glazed. Your end creation will be light and highly resistant. Marisa Clemente (@thefolkyfox) is a specialist when it comes to working with polymer clay. This Portuguese artist has clay modeling in her blood–her family on her mother’s side are passionate about ceramics. Under her brand, The Folky Fox, Marisa creates jewelry and accessories out of polymer clay that celebrate nature and the animal world and combine simple lines and realistic details. Now Marisa shares 11 polymer clay artists that inspire her every day.
Can designer Fernanda Guimarães create a Carnival tiara using only the items hidden in our surprise box?
Discover the work of these top needle felting artists using wool in inventive ways Needle felting, a technique that involves compacting a ball of wool to create different shapes using a spiky needle, is growing increasingly popular. This is largely thanks to social media, which provides artists with a platform to share and sell their adorable needle felted art toys and other creations. In this blog post, three Domestika teachers share a list of needle felting artists whose work will inspire you to pick up a needle. Artists selected by Caro Indy (@caroindy): Wes Anderson – The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox Let’s start by talking about Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, a stop-motion animation film starring some very charismatic needle-felted animals who stole the hearts of indie film lovers. This film made needle felting very popular, even though Wes didn’t actually make the animals with his own hands. Carolina Alles recommends the book, The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox. The film is an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's classic, a story that Anderson reimagined in 2009 for the enjoyment of a new generation of cinema-goers. The book offers a vast amount of material, such as storyboards and behind-the-scenes photos.
Discover the tools and materials you’ll need to bind without creating any folds With so many aspects of our lives becoming digitized, we have found a new appreciation for objects that awaken all the senses. Binding is a technique used to create beautiful objects using just our hands. It is a great way to present art and design work, a publishing project, your portfolio, and much more. In this blog post, Susana Domínguez (@susanadominguez)–who won a national competition for artistic binding in Spain in 2017–shares a list of basic materials you’ll need to bind without creating any folds. Your creation will open up 100% and enable you to present your work without having to worry about losing any loose pages. Let's get to work!
Discover how to use this extremely flexible modelling material with Marisa Clemente
How to use Instagram to find images that will inspire your next creation Courtney McLeod, also known as Dearest Q (@dearest_q), is a textile artist based in Philadelphia who creates colorful framed embroidery art inspired by fashion illustration and 90s pop culture. Working with clean lines and minimalist compositions, Courtney produces figurative illustrations on fabric. She sells her work on her online store and has been commissioned by Brie Larson, Peppa Pig, and the magazines “Today’s Parent,” “Love Embroidery,” and “Koel.” Courtney first learned to embroider while studying textile art at OCADU in Toronto. She picked it up again after graduation while working at a restaurant as a relaxing and portable activity she could easily do during her breaks. She started off embroidering lots of plants and copied popular motifs that she saw other artists recreating. However, as her skills evolved, Courtney quickly developed her own style and found herself drawn to fashion illustration, embroidering shoes, colorful socks, and women wearing vintage denim.
Ceramic Artist Sandra Apperloo shares a basic template for a personalized vase project In the last decade or so, ceramics and pottery have seen a true renascence. One of the reasons is that working with clay is filled with pleasant surprises, with almost endless possibilities to explore. This vision is shared by Sandra Apperloo (@thepotteryparade), a ceramist who has not only found great joy in the craft, but also made it her full-time profession. Her brand, known as The Pottery Parade, is filled with quirky faces and pastel hues, has over 100K followers on Instagram, and has been featured in magazines like This is Colossal, ArtPeople, and more.
Discover the materials you need to create tapestries on a loom, with Diana Cunha
Discover the best care you can give to your embroidery with the advice of five experts Hand embroidery is a very delicate process, time consuming and requires great attention to detail. Therefore, it is essential to know how to take care of your pieces. After so much dedication, you probably don't want your creations to spoil due to lack of care. With this in mind and with the intention that you learn to care for your hand embroidery like a pro, we have selected the following free classes. To see each lesson, you just have to click on its red title. Enjoy!
Señorita Lylo shares patterns and photos with models to embroider braids, bows and hairstyles with flowers If you want to learn different techniques to achieve embroideries that stand out from the frame and give your creations another dimension, textile designer Señorita Lylo is here for you. This embroiderer and graphic designer brings yarn to life by creating designs with volume. Also, she knows how to teach and share her techniques: her pedagogical, practical and inspiring style has earned her thousands of followers on social media.
Meet the British jewelry designer crafting one-of-a-kind pieces with epoxy resin A graduate of the University of the Arts in London, Mia Winston-Hart (@miawinstonhart) is an educator and the founder and owner of a small accessories business in the south of England. She creates brightly-colored one-of-a-kind pieces with epoxy resin–a material that has no limits, allowing Mia to explore her creativity and work with an infinite range of shapes and colors.
Learn about scrapbooking and how to use this creative tool to preserve memories and tell a story “Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.” The words of American playwright Tennessee Williams perhaps explain why scrapbooking, the art of creating scrapbooks, has become so popular. But what exactly is a scrapbook? Discover below.
Learn the basic, step-by-step macramé techniques to give shape to your design, with Mariella Motilla
Learn how to care for your hand-embroidered clothing and art, with Kseniia Guseva Hand embroidery is a meticulous and time-consuming task. It's important not to let your efforts go to waste by failing to care for it properly. Kseniia Guseva, also known as @faimyxstitch, is a hand embroidery artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. According to Kseniia, “embroidery makes everything better.” She is particularly passionate about architecture–and has created over 100 city patterns; upcycling; and customizing different items, such as jeans, bags, T-shirts, and even trainers. In this tutorial, she shares a number of simple and essential tips on how to make sure your pieces last.
Find out what materials are needed to start creating unique pieces painted on fabric Like it or not, the way we dress reveals a lot about us. It is a way of positioning ourselves, of showing, even in silence, our references and passions. And, for those who value originality, nothing better than a personalized garment that sets them apart immediately, right? Painting on canvas is one of the best ways to achieve this effect. Check below the list that specialist Ana María Restrepo (@anamaria_10), designer and textile artist behind the Amarpo brand, who has collaborated with brands with Levi's or Andres Pajon, prepared with the basic materials for those who want to start in the world of textile painting.
Learn the basic techniques and two ways to make tiny leaves and flowers using polymer clay
Fernanda Guimarães, Creative Director of Can Can, shares her routine and the creative process she uses to design hair accessories
Learn artisanal techniques to make floral designs with your hands If you love anything flower related, search no more! These courses are just for you. Learn from 5 experts how to use real and handmade flowers to create amazing designs, modify objects, and create craft projects to improve your home or make a special gift. Are you ready to start creating? Just click on the course title to learn more about it.
Maria Filipe Castro, aka droolwool, shares her tips on how to create a droplet with needle felting
