Gathering together sites with descriptions of traditional british crafts, hopefully with hints and tips on how to get started on them.
Traditional crafts and how to get started
Sites with instructions on how to get started on traditional crafts.
- The Joy of Handspinning - How To Make A Drop Spindle
- Instructions on how to make a drop spindle, which is an ancient spinning tool for handspinning fleece and fiber into yarn.
- Basic Tablet Weaving
- Basic Tablet Weaving - with pictures.
- Echna's Tablet or Card Weaving Page
- Echna's (Gwen Morse) pages are dedicated to 5th Century (AD/CE) Irish-Celtic recreational medievalism.
- The Art of Decoupage
- The Art of Decoupage; its past & present. Decoupage ideas & instructions.
Resources - places to get the stuff you need
Not necessarily instructions, but still useful.
Some of these sites have shops or descriptions of things you need, without necessarily the instructions that you could use to get started. Still places that you'd like to know about.
- Corn Craft - , Corn Dollies, maize dolls and traditional crafts hand made in England
- 'Tis but a thing of straw...We at Corncraft offer a wide selection of over 100 traditional designed corn dollies, maize dolls, Christmas decorations and floral items, made by local craftsmen and women from natural wheat straw grown on our farm.In addition, we supply the raw materials needed to make your own corn dollies in our own kit with full instructions to start you on 3 different styles.
- The Cane Store - London - Suppliers of cane materials
- Suppliers of Raw Materials, Chair Cane, Basket Cane, Rattan Cane, Rush, Bamboo poles, Cane Webbing on a Roll Seagrass, Raffia etc.
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