#crafts material

[field-guide-to-mud]

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#wax seal #junk journal #scrapbooking #pressed flowers #green #bug art #mudposting #my photos #craft #bug #insect #bugs #insects #snails #ramble timeeeee #i had a lot of fun with this one lol #idk if ive posted any of my Big Pages before?? #i only have a handful of em #id been meaning to do a bug page for agesssss and i finally figured i had enough materials and could do it nicely #the hexagons are real photos ive taken #i wish i had more printed cuz i have more bug photos #oh well #the lil 'todo conecta a todo lo demás' thing means 'everything is connected to everything else' which i thought fit great with Bugs #theres also lil splotches of preserved moss around #i spent ages on this page honestly im so happy with it #i feel like this also really shows like. a good step in my journey with my fear of bugs #cuz like lemme tell u im not generally one to touch or go near bugs #but im learning to love and appreciate the role they play in the world and come to like them more and more #idk man bugs are cool #i hope yall dont mind the messy picture its hard to get nice clean straight on with big pages like this

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Roundhouse Interiors, Butser Ancient Farm, Waterlooville, Hampshire

#ice age #stone age #bronze age #copper age #iron age #neolithic #mesolithic #calcholithic #paleolithic #prehistoric #prehistory #roundhouse #ancient living #ancient craft #ancient cultures #hearth #metalwork #natural materials #archaeology #butser ancient farm #community #outdoors #wild living #textiles

[changan-moon]

chinese mudiao木雕(wood sculpture) by artist 舔芥末的猫

#china #crafts #crafting #handcrafts #craftsmanship #wood sculpture #mudiao #material is hollow tree trunk #art

[notyourdaisybuchanan]

Rewatching The Bear 2x03 is actually crazy and feels so clarifying because like...

The ep starts with Carmy speaking at Al-Anon about fun, and how maybe he needs to have more of it. He acknowledges that fun is complicated for him because as a kid his family tended to ruin things for him, even though this was often unintentionally done. He says that he thinks if he had more amusement or enjoyment in his own life then it would be easier to provide that for other people. (Big note here that part of the purpose OF a restaurant is to provide amusement and enjoyment for people. Then add in Luca's conversation with Marcus in 2x04 about how the best food comes from being open and inspired, and spending time in the world. So Carmy having fun could theoretically make him better at his job.)

Anyway, Carmy gives that spiel at Al-Anon. Then we get a brief interlude of Syd looking at articles about recent restaurant closings and being stressed.

And then we're immediately back with Syd and Carmy cooking together in his kitchen. She fucks up a dish again, and he suggests they stop cooking and do a palate reset.

Like... this all happens within the first five minutes of the ep. This man has been musing about how he needs to have more fun.... and then he suggests spending the day eating in the city with Syd..... ergo that's his definition of fun. This is literally him making an attempt at doing something for amusement or enjoyment!! He planned this!! I fully believe he had this idea even before Sydney fucked up the dish. This man said I need to have more fun and you know what would be fun? Spending the day with my business partner eating delicious food. So he sends her home with plans to meet in an hour.

And then. AND THEN. Claire calls. First of all when she asks if he's busy, he looks at the white board and the very first thing on the To Do list is "call fridge guy" so like. lmao. I love foreshadowing. And he literally is busy!!! Not with unpleasant tasks to do but with something FUN. Something fun that he planned FOR himself.

And what is it that Claire asks him to do? Is it something fun? No. She asks him to HELP HER MOVE her mom. Like, the least fun task in the history of anything, the thing that people historically HATE being asked to help with. And he doesn't look excited about it! He looks torn. He looks...weird idk. Like ohhhh it's actually so crazy that Carmy bails on a truly fun day with Sydney in order to do a manual labor favor for Claire.

This is so ripe for analysis you simply cannot tell me it doesn't mean anything.

Carmy thinks about how he needs more fun, plans a fun day for himself, and then, when someone he tried to avoid asks him to do a not fun favor, he says yeah, I'll do that instead.

#Almost like he feels a sense of obligation. #Almost like he's self sabotaging. #Almost like Claire's connection to his past to his family to Michael is... allowing his family to ruin something fun for him yet again. #idk I'm not completely married to that bit but the material is definitely there!! #anyway this is my first post-s2 sydcarmy analysis but certainly not the last!! #this show is nuts everything is so intentional and carefully crafted I'm having a field day #apologies if this post comes off like I'm yelling I kind of am bc I was so excited while writing it lol #the bear #the bear meta #sydcarmy #sydcarmy meta #the bear s2 #chefs kiss #sydney adamu #carmen berzatto #sydney x carmy

[wildstar25]

I was thinking about WOL outfits and what not, so here's a question:

And to elaborate on the difference between option 1 and option 2, a brief explanation of my interpretations under the cut:

Illusion magic only masks the true appearance of an item, bending the light aether around the item to make it look different to the naked eye. No physical properties of the armour changes. It maintains its original dimensions and weight. If your WOL was wearing full plate armour then glamoured it to something more revealing, if someone tried to stab an exposed area, their knife would stop on impact of the concealed armour.

Transformation magic will fully alter the physical appearance of the armour into the applied glamour. It will take on the shape and structure of the WOL's desired form, but the properties of the materials used will be maintained. The high grade metal of the armour will be altered to a state where it was like a woven thread. The item would provide the same degree of protection as the original where it physically exists in its glamoured state. If your WOL glamoured their plate armour into a the street wear top, their actual abdomen could be pierced by weapon. Because this is magic you could fudge the physics if you so choose or say there's a secondary spell involved; but I'd imagine that if the transformation was completely lossless, your glamoured item will weight the same amount as the un-glamoured version. (Otherwise it would be more like a transmutation which is a lossy conversion and not reversible. The WOL turned their new savage tier BIS armour into a hempen camise and lost 95% of the material in the process. When they dispel the glamour they have that hempen camise's amount of the original armour piece.)

That's my take on the two options! I don't know if either of them really contradict any canon in-game explanations to the glamour system tbh. It's been so long since I picked up the intro quest and the only time I remember glamours being used as a plot device it was in the ARR Hildebrand quest line (I think the very end or within the coliseum arc, either way I'm not doing all that just to check and see that it says nothing of note)

#ffxiv #ffxiv poll #wolqotd #For Arsay her glams are what shes actually wearing! #Tataru will either be the one crafting the outfit for Arsay making sure its made out of strong materials #or she will modify what Arsay brings to her fortifying it and making it adventure-ready #Arsay has simply gotten very good at not getting stabbed in the gut #She needs to be fast on her feet and nimble at all times so she has to stick to lightweight gear of durable woven cloths and treated leathe #She also uses glamours on her skin and for that case its illusion magic #She's covering up her many arcane geometry tattoos and a whole lot of scars from battle #If you were to run your hand over her skin you'd feel the scar tissue easily

[bookshelfdreams]

there's a fascination to handmade things isn't there? little imperfections. tiny traces left behind by human hands.

I have been seeing with handwoven fabric over the last few days and there's - snapped threads, one or two treading errors, a few floats. almost invisible, things people would call poor quality, maybe, but I love discovering them. they make me think about the person who made that fabric; I wonder who they are. what they saw and smelled and heard as they sat and wove. what they thought about. if maybe they caught an imperfection but thought fuck it, I'm not gonna go back and fix that, that's good enough.

I wonder if they find satisfaction in their work. I hope they were well-compensated (the vendor said yes, but of course she would have; there's no way for me to know for sure). if they have children, I hope those get an education. I hope they are happy.

and I wonder. what do their hands look like? what does their voice sound like? who taught them their craft, and who will they teach it to? what's their name?

there's just. with industrial production I feel like we sometimes don't really appreciate that things come from somewhere. idk if it's alienation but sometimes it hits me: this was made by human hands. by a person with a name, and a place they call home, on the other side of the world; we will never meet. they will never know I exist.

do they wonder about me too? as they took their fabric off the loom, did they wonder who would buy it? what they would make with it? (a truly horrendous pair of trousers)

I wish I could tell them Thank you.

#crafts #idk guys in this industrialized world of ours there's something truly special about handmade materials #people! i love people

[itscolossal]

‘Wild Textiles’ Is a Practical Guide for Turning Foraged Materials into Fiber-Based Works

#books #textiles #nature #craft #foraging #found materials #art

[idlesuperstar]

- As far back as I can remember, I had a passion for dressing up and playing games of 'Let's Pretend', which are, of course, the basic principles of acting, and if you are lucky enough, you get paid for so doing, hard work though it may be.

#peter cushing #birthday boy #thank you for existing! #cannot believe it's taken me this many years here to do a proper peter cushing birthday gifset #just looking at his face through all these films has brought me great joy #even having to suffer larry's hamlet again was worth it for peter's amazing thighs in those tights (sorry not sorry) #the hardest part was having to watch from beyond the grave which is just completely heartbreaking every time #anyway your honour I love him #and his dedication to his craft #like all the greats he never gives less than his best even when the material is a bit shit #I especially love 1950s peter because he's in some great films and gives great performances #but all peter decades are amazing #my wee gifs

[elexuscal]

you know existing in the modern media landscape is funny cuz like

i genuinely love adaptations. like as a concept. they're transformative works, right? ideally, it's the same soul that drives all fandom write large

you go 'how do translate this story?' how do you take words and make them into images? how do you take images and turn them into film? how can a film use a score the way a book used narration? do you cut this character, prune that plotline, like a bonsai? or conversely, do you need to lay a new bed for under explored story-beats to grow?

a well told adaptation is amazing. it deepens the story, it expands your understanding of both texts.

but as more and more of the stories i love get adapted the more i realise the vast majority of the studios and/or the people they hire for these jobs don't give a shit of any of that, and are just looking for a new IP to toss into the Content Regurgitation Machine

#media #adaptation #and like i'll be honest individual cases don't even make me feel that bad anymore #it used to hit me really badly #but some time after the Giver i think #i ironically stopped giving a shit #because the source material is still there and the people who will love it can still find it #the atla movie didn't kill love for the show etc etc #but in the scope of things #it makes me sad #in the sense we're putting all this time and money and effort #into story sludge #where we could be doing genuinely really interesting with the craft

[azertyrobaz]

His Dark Materials 

1x01 - 3x03

#his dark materials #hdm #roger parslow #lord asriel #marisa coulter #lewin lloyd #james mcavoy #ruth wilson #lyra's jordan #the intention craft #parallels #my edits

[art-of-mathematics]

Hexagon-shaped box complex made with toilet paper rolls.

... to sort colorful paper clips.

This is a very practical low-effort and low-cost project.

#upcycling #parametric design or such idk #diy #hexagons #hexagon #hexagon-shaped designs are so efficient in means of stability and material cost (due to requiring relatively few surface area) #crafts #crafting #crafting projects #crafting ideas #my crafts #colorful

[chocodile]

Another customized Sylvanian Families house, this one for my washed up dark wizard bunny Hyden!

This one was a much bigger project than the rose-themed Rococo house I made for Ambroys. I’ve been chipping away at this thing for around two months. Phew!

If you’re curious as to what the building looked like prior to customization, as well as some notes about the project, see the pictures and extra info under the cut:

Most of the furniture was repainted or sourced from weird locations (check out the hand-painted books and tiny pile of skulls on the bookshelf), the thorny vines on the exterior had to be made by hand, and, as it turns out, the Creamy Gelato Shop I used as a base... had no door. I had to source another building’s door in a similar size from a spare parts seller and do some creative modifications on it to make it fit. Also, @kwillow​​  had the great idea to turn the inside into a flat wall with a giant portrait of himself (from his younger, handsomer years) hanging on it. Had a lot of fun with that bit!

Here are some pictures of the Creamy Gelato shop before getting renovated into a dark wizard’s gloomy manor:

#sylvanian families #calico critters #doll custom #doll customization #toy customization #dollhouse #art dolls #crafts #my ocs #hyden #verse: amaranthine #I can finally move the paints off of my living room craft table! #...and immediately replace them with sewing materials which are an even worse form of clutter #but at least they are a different kind of clutter #I'm working on a bunch of critter customs right now... they are all painted and customized and just need clothes

[tenderanarchist]

Prototype tiny book made with leather upholstery samples and printmaking paper offcuts

#it measures about 3in tall and 2 and a quarter in across while closed #diy #art stuff #bookmaking #bookbinding #reclaimed materials #crafting #artists on tumblr #book arts

[uncanny-tranny]

Honestly, going into your WIP pile to actually go through it and see what you actually want to finish can be really helpful, especially when you don't judge yourself and try to learn why that piece became a hibernater in your WIP pile

Some questions I ponder when I look at a WIP is:

Is this project turning out how I want? If not, what about it don't I like?

Do I or did I have fun when I was starting it?

Will I actually use it or enjoy it when I'm done?

Do I like the material now?

Do I see myself enjoying the product after it's done?

Were there, or are there, time restraints preventing me from finishing?

Is this out of my current skill set, and am I okay with that?

If I could change one thing about the WIP, what would it be?

I know plenty of people won't incorporate this into their own WIP and crafting journey, and that's okay. But I know so many people who hibernate their projects for many reasons and feel guilty about it. I hope this might give people ideas about why they hibernate projects to prevent that type of guilt from eating away at their conscious. This (creating) should be fun, and if you're spending a lot of time feeling guilty or ashamed, it can be hard to continue doing the things you like.

#art #fiber art #knit #crochet #(but this applies to a Lot of crafts and skills and whatnot. i direct it towards knit and crochet because that's what i had in mind) #honestly i think i'm going to frog one of my WIPs because i just don't want it anymore #i don't like the pattern or the method it calls for and i don't like the acrylic material it recommended either #freeing yourself in the way you keep and permanently retire a WIP can be really healing i think #because then you can accept that you have the *right* to refuse to complete something which doesn't spark joy #i think many times people hibernate projects which spark anxiety or frustration for whatever reason #so sometimes you hibernate a project because you are anxious about not having the 'right' level of skill to complete it for instance #that's a generalization but i found personally that exploring *why* i hibernate things can lead me where i want to be... #...and lead me to explore what it is that fulfills my creativity in the way it needs to be honed #there is NOTHING wrong with never finishing or frogging a piece. in fact i implore you to do it if you want

[bagely]

one of the hc's about q!missa's appearance that makes me laugh the most is when they say he wears a skull mask and there are only two ways it's either a fake skull or q!missa digs up a death body and take out the skull and then aesthetically decorates it to look like emo hardcore darks and it's so funny that mental image.

#qsmp #qsmp missa #he only uses real materials for his crafts #He exhumes corpses in his spare time #everyone has a hobby #q!missa

[danneroni]

🔔 FUR SCRAPS 🔔

1LB of surprise fur fabric!

Jumpstart your sewing projects with a lil added fur 🪡🌈

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#fur scraps #surprise bag #grab bag #fabric #shag fur #for sale #etsy shop #etsy seller #cosplay #fursuit #fursuit supplies #crafting #materials #faux fur