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Photography, digital and mediaPhotography, digital and media — 50 items
Sun prints & alt-process photographyCyanotype, anthotype, and other light-sensitive chemistry crafts that print an image without a darkroom.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Sun prints & alt-process photography
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Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Textiles are basically endless in terms of all branches it could take. Dying, weaving, sewing, beading etc etc. after the basics, you could get into textile sculpture, block printing and carve your own blocks, anthotypes could compliment your cyanotype journey too
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Cyanotype on mirrors, chlorophyll cyanotypes
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Im obsessed with the chlorophyll print pieces!!!
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
What readers reported: Love cyanotype!! I made this for my sister with her some of her wedding flowers.
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: I have all the stuff for cyanotype dye but I’m curious how people do the photos, like how do you get negatives?
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Cyanotype on mirrors, chlorophyll cyanotypes
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: take film photos or buy them. learn how to take it off from the paper and put onto something else
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: photo printing on leaves
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Felting, rug tufting, cyanotype, van dyke, shibori, glass blowing, stained glass, marble carving, copper plate printing, photo transfers (so many varieties of ways to do this), OOOOOO graffiti remover transferring magazines to paper was my FAVORITE thing in Highschool
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Felting, rug tufting, cyanotype, van dyke, shibori, glass blowing, stained glass, marble carving, copper plate printing, photo transfers (so many varieties of ways to do this), OOOOOO graffiti remover transferring magazines to paper was my FAVORITE thing in Highschool
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: polaroid lifts!
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: If you don’t want to be confined to blue, Solar Fast is similar and has more colors
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: screen printing on shirts or sun printing even more niche
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: And turmeric prints. I’ve done cyanotype once, and I want to do both next time.
Best for: Sun prints & alt-process photography
Why readers recommended it: Felting, rug tufting, cyanotype, van dyke, shibori, glass blowing, stained glass, marble carving, copper plate printing, photo transfers (so many varieties of ways to do this), OOOOOO graffiti remover transferring magazines to paper was my FAVORITE thing in Highschool
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get into cyanotype!
And turmeric prints. I’ve done cyanotype once, and I want to do both next time.
cyanotyping, perfume making (specifically enfleurage), stained glass making, etching glass, wood carving, lace tatting, rug tufting, Victorian hair work jewelry, graphite watercolors, paper quilling, French beaded flowers, weaving straw hats, fore-edge painting books, live willow sculptures, bonsai - to name a few of the more niche options I've dabbled in throughout the years - perhaps there's a few you haven't tried yet!
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16 indexed entries draw on 47 distinct source records. Cyanotype has the broadest support in this group (28 source records).
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Film, darkroom & camera photographyShooting and developing images the traditional way, from 35mm to pinhole cameras.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Film, darkroom & camera photography
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Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: I make tiny things out of porcelain and silver clay. Not that niche I guess. My brother in law restores super old cameras and does all sorts of creative shooting/exposing techniques
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: Dark room photography ❤ There are kits on Amazon. Get an inexpensive film camera.
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: Darkroom printing 35mm film
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: not rly a craft but traditional photos that you have to get developed
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: You can modify an old point and shoot camera (even digital ones) using a piece of an old photo negative to shoot Infra-Red photographs. This photo is from Google, and was probably post processed a bit but it still comes out cool raw.
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: Japanese Thimble Rings : Yubinuki. Or French Beaded Flowers. Lumography was fun to play with (using weird altered cameras to get cool shots) or IR photography.
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: I collect stuff in nature and pose a scene for pictures. This here is “G.I. Cicadas”
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: Put a bouquet of flowers into a picture frame to save them, make a magazine on Canva, sew embroidery onto shoes or a scarf, search for a really cool vintage photo from your family and clean it up on Photoshop and get it printed for an art gallery wall.
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: I take photos and see what is dimensionally adjacent. Faerie finding? I guess? I have a process. But also found some pretty cool stuff on THIS dimension.
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: Make a pinhole camera out of an aluminum can!
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: pinhole camera photography
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: Making crosswords. Woodwork. Zines. Design underwear. Street photography. Pen pals/letter writing.
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
Why readers recommended it: My covid hobby was tintype photography. That’s the kind of photos they took during the civil war. My friends got tired of me inviting them over to sit very still for long periods in my garden while I made their picture
Best for: Film, darkroom & camera photography
What readers reported: make your own view master wheels. I've done it! it's delicate meticulous work if you do it by hand. get yourself a second hand functionnal view master, and voilà!
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I collect stuff in nature and pose a scene for pictures. This here is “G.I. Cicadas”
35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games, raspberry pi projects, butterfly/moth breeding, mushroom growing, spray painting, rock tumbling, cosplaying, zentangle… I could go on and on
Dark room photography ❤ There are kits on Amazon. Get an inexpensive film camera.
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16 indexed entries draw on 24 distinct source records. Tintype photography has the broadest support in this group (4 source records).
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Archive: 16 index entries preserve 24 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Digital art, animation & VFXMotion and screen-based image-making, from stop motion to visual effects.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Digital art, animation & VFX
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Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: try animation on print!
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: Cymatics (spell?) it involves designs, made by vibrating sounds.
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: If ur into digital 3D animation with blender or unreal engine
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: I use Procreate, Apple Pencil and old photos from the public domain to create collages.
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: Put a bouquet of flowers into a picture frame to save them, make a magazine on Canva, sew embroidery onto shoes or a scarf, search for a really cool vintage photo from your family and clean it up on Photoshop and get it printed for an art gallery wall.
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: customize ur phone layout
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: Tatting, rotoscoping, encaustic
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: Needle felting. So fun. And stop motion with the needle felts
Best for: Digital art, animation & VFX
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
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Tatting, rotoscoping, encaustic
customize ur phone layout
35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games, raspberry pi projects, butterfly/moth breeding, mushroom growing, spray painting, rock tumbling, cosplaying, zentangle… I could go on and on
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12 indexed entries draw on 14 distinct source records. Stop motion animation has the broadest support in this group (4 source records).
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3D design, printing & electronicsDigital fabrication and small-electronics builds, from 3D-printed objects to microcontroller projects.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: 3D design, printing & electronics
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Best for: 3D design, printing & electronics
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: 3D design, printing & electronics
Why readers recommended it: 3d printing! get an elegoo resin printer and learn 3d modelling
Best for: 3D design, printing & electronics
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: 3D design, printing & electronics
Why readers recommended it: Cyber decks. Make a super creative one!!
Best for: 3D design, printing & electronics
Why readers recommended it: Microcontrollers ! I enjoy making projects and implementing new components
Best for: 3D design, printing & electronics
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Cyber decks. Make a super creative one!!
I do 3d printing! I design a lot of weird stuff and also license designs from other artists. It’s so fun!
3d printing (designing your own items not just printing other people’s)
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6 indexed entries draw on 37 distinct source records. 3D printing has the broadest support in this group (24 source records).
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Fiber and textile artsFiber and textile arts — 307 items
Sewing, quilting, garment & doll makingCutting and stitching fabric into clothing, quilts, plush toys, and dolls.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
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Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Alabama Chanin slow stitching reverse appliqué.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Maybe not the most niche but have you made alpha bracelets? They’re rly fun
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Pysanky eggs, or wool felting animals
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Bead dress
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Design a beaded gown
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I present to you… plastic beaded tops
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Beading dresses, English paper piecing, Batting! 🥰
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Why readers recommended it: bed dolls
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: cyanotyping, recycling art, 3d embroidery with fabric scraps, weaving to mend patches on pants, blanket stitch necklines, furniture painting, bug pinning, idek girl im in the same boat
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I sew bras. Very special sewing niche.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: needle felting or caribou hair tufting with beadwork accents. porcupine quill earrings.beaded flowers from early 1900s
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Make cheer bows
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Carding and cleaning raw wool, spinning it into a fine yarn, and then weaving it into fabric. Then use the woven fabric to make a garment (you can also spin your own thread from wool)
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Why readers recommended it: Have you repurposed your clothing yet
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Why readers recommended it: If you sew, corset making is a cool one. I’ve made a few out of all kinds of fabric
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Why readers recommended it: I make my Halloween costume every year and always win the costume contest! I won $1,000 one time
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Why readers recommended it: Cotton wool toys
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Why readers recommended it: kintsugi. making bowl and ice cream pint cozies. making wine glass charms
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What readers reported: I just bought a book on crazy quilting, those Victorians were weird and I love it
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: creative mending, darning, kawandi quilting
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: creative mending, darning, kawandi quilting
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Why readers recommended it: making doilies!
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Why readers recommended it: I try crafts off the heritage crafts endangered list, I made Dorset buttons as Christmas decorations this year!
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Why readers recommended it: hand made dreadlock extensions are my new hobby
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: BEST THREAD EVER. In all of all of you. I’ve started doing more painting and fashion 🥰
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: fabric mod podge collage clothing 👀
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: ahhh but have you made the fabric frayed strip flip flop? bc that def is an attn grabber. js
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Why readers recommended it: Book binding isn’t one I see a lot. Also paper making. Or making fabric or yarn/ string. I’ve only seen one woman make a bow a scratch.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I just finished this cutie! fabric scraps and cut styrofoam
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Buying knitted things from thrift stores and deconstructing them back in to spools of yarn. Also, I’ve started welding fabrics together
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Try making a Kentucky Derby fascinator! Check out my IG page for inspo - theguildedbrim ✨
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: BEST THREAD EVER. In all of all of you. I’ve started doing more painting and fashion 🥰
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Why readers recommended it: idk girl have you tried making faux fur cat ears
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Why readers recommended it: Stain glass window but made out of fabric!
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Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: learn to make fly fringe. very very niche. I took a class on it once. also Hella time consuming lol
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Why readers recommended it: Appliqué, English paper piecing and foundation paper piecing with your sewing machine. What machine do you have?
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Why readers recommended it: Bookmarks/patches/keychains using the same technique as friendship bracelets!
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Why readers recommended it: Not niche but nobody thinks about this, making a fur suit is a really cool art and craft that takes a lot of time and effort and if you don’t want it you could sell it. Also paper hand dragons
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: try gobelin !!!
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Why readers recommended it: lei making or graduation stoles.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: clean your hairbrush out. clean the hair. dry the hair strands. do the same with hair that comes out when u shower. use the hair to make wigs for people cats and dogs. you're welcome.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Fabric prints with real flowers 🌺 [link removed]
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Why readers recommended it: Hand quilting? Not hand piecing, but the actual quilting part.
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What readers reported: silk painting, hand sewing, intricate veneer work
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
What readers reported: cyanotyping, perfume making (specifically enfleurage), stained glass making, etching glass, wood carving, lace tatting, rug tufting, Victorian hair work jewelry, graphite watercolors, paper quilling, French beaded flowers, weaving straw hats,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I do DIY jackets for myself
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Why readers recommended it: Jelly roll rugs!
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Why readers recommended it: Start making Kandi outfits
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Why readers recommended it: creative mending, darning, kawandi quilting
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Why readers recommended it: Kinusaiga! Look it up. There are a few great artists out there with tutorials on YT
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Why readers recommended it: koolaid pouch purses
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Why readers recommended it: Latch hook kits, diamond painting, surprisingly puzzles feel very artsy 😅
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Why readers recommended it: Long furby
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Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: doing textile art with an embellisher machine!
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: cyanotyping, recycling art, 3d embroidery with fabric scraps, weaving to mend patches on pants, blanket stitch necklines, furniture painting, bug pinning, idek girl im in the same boat
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Why readers recommended it: Millinery (hat making)
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Why readers recommended it: Motanka doll
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Why readers recommended it: victorian hair jewelry/hair art, flint napping, drop spindling your pet's soft underbelly fur, nalbinding, basket weaving with invasive species (i'm doing this rn!)
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Why readers recommended it: Grow Indigofera tinctoria and make a swatch panel of different organic fibers.
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Why readers recommended it: If ur going to Coachella; diying an outfit!! Bedazzling, knitting, sewing 💞
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Why readers recommended it: Paracord/ 550 cord. I made a duck call lanyard for my husband and it turned out pretty neat 😊
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Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: If u have a cat or a dog u can like turn their fur into yarn… and make sumthin or make a mini version of them w their fur
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Why readers recommended it: have you tried the plastic canvas stitching.
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Why readers recommended it: Plastic canvas 3d doll houses
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Why readers recommended it: plastic canvas furniture?
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Why readers recommended it: I just saw a lady that made a purse using those plastic sheets and yarn. im checking that out more.
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Why readers recommended it: Plush-o-dermy
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Why readers recommended it: Stained glass making, book end painting, Chinese embroidery, hat making, shoe making, perfume making, soap making, bath bombs, ribbon flowers, paper beads, origami, plushy making, tarot cards (not a crafty hobby but very interesting) :3
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Why readers recommended it: [account] - Pomwreath make Pom poms❤️❤️
Limit: have you made pompoms? warning: it's highly addictive!
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Why readers recommended it: Have you tried primitive rug hooking? My mom has been doing it for about 40ish years. She made this Mario rug for my son who’s obsessed. ☺️💕🥳
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Why readers recommended it: I used to do punch needling and it’s literally soo so fun
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Why readers recommended it: I make frog purses for frog lovers
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Why readers recommended it: Well, I’m currently relining a purse 😂
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What readers reported: Making your own lip balm and solid fragrance are both fun with some overlap in materials for lower waste/ better deals, also quilling is an almost lost paper art! I recently saw kits for ‘square a month’ slow process quilt making if you’re open to sewing,…
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Why readers recommended it: I was just on Pinterest looking Amish rugs made from old sheets
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Why readers recommended it: Stained glass making, book end painting, Chinese embroidery, hat making, shoe making, perfume making, soap making, bath bombs, ribbon flowers, paper beads, origami, plushy making, tarot cards (not a crafty hobby but very interesting) :3
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Why readers recommended it: ribbon headbands
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Why readers recommended it: Rug hooking with yarn instead of wool strips. Helps get rid of yarn stash. I use yarn from my own sheep but you can use any wool yarn.
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Why readers recommended it: I’ve always wanted to learn to make a rug. Like with the punch thingy.
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Why readers recommended it: gemstone faceting. rug tufting. marble sculpture. whittling. yarn making. mirrored embroidery and tambour beading
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Why readers recommended it: you can make portraits with scrap fabric. paint plant holders with funny but possibly inappropriate words. needle lace making.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I make semamori patterns. the design is the exact same on the front and back because you sew in a certain way to not ever double back over a line. I make cards, bookmarks, and of course I sew certain patterns on the back of shirts
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
What readers reported: this isn’t very niche but curtain beads!! i love them so much and they’re so fun to make, also teaching yourself how to sew. it’s SO fun once you figure it out. here’s some of the beads i’ve made
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: ok so i have been doing - bedazzling, painting, painting on vintage suitcases, i go to lowe’s and grab paint swatches and punch holes and hot glue them onto paintings to make a cute design, embroidery, sew buttons onto a old purse into designs, braided bracelets, beaded purses andddd that’s all i can think of lol
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I’m currently sewing dog bow ties that I donate to animal shelters and rescue groups so the doggies can have bow ties to wear for photoshoots or adoption events 💗
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Refurbishing dolls🥰 You can even make yourself a mini you and continue to see clothes for her xx
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Learn about sewing pattern making :)
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: sewing little quilted vests. I've been obsessed. also, hand quilting is meditative.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Sewing little cats from thrifted sweaters and other clothes.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: People making their own sweatshirts from scraps 😳🥰👏
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
What readers reported: Here’s my list of things I have an embarrassing amount of money invested in. Some I liked, some not as much: Rug Hooking, glass lamp work ( have the whole set up),silver enameling ( have a ton of money it- haven’t tried it yet🙄), silver clay,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Showgirl head dresses
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Have you made the beaded and sequined stockings? I always change and embellish them more.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: visible mending. like sweater darning in beautiful patterns. it's crafty, AND useful. Swiss darning is my current obsession
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: I bought a plain sweater the other day to sew random bows and buttons on the front of it. Lol 🤪
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried pulling apart (frogging) a sweater to harvest its yarn because…do I have the craft for you
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: visible mending. like sweater darning in beautiful patterns. it's crafty, AND useful. Swiss darning is my current obsession
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Weaving, Tatreez, silversmithing
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Teddy bears…. Thrifted vintage teddy patters
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Textiles are basically endless in terms of all branches it could take. Dying, weaving, sewing, beading etc etc. after the basics, you could get into textile sculpture, block printing and carve your own blocks, anthotypes could compliment your cyanotype journey too
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: have you spun your own yarn on a wheel or spindle? how about bobbin lace? needle felting? Tufting? I'm much older and i haven't even had time to try everything
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Making crosswords. Woodwork. Zines. Design underwear. Street photography. Pen pals/letter writing.
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: Wow so fun I just went thru my craft stuff yesterday and found a manila envelope with my mom's handwriting. Inside was a one pager how-to for velvet embossing
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
What readers reported: Have you tried Victorian hairwork wirework hair flowers? If not, I'd love to teach you. My next beginner workshop is in March. Check out my pinned post for info, or visit my website: victorianhairwork.art 🌹
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: visible mending. like sweater darning in beautiful patterns. it's crafty, AND useful. Swiss darning is my current obsession
Best for: Sewing, quilting, garment & doll making
Why readers recommended it: voodoo dolls
Where commenters report limits
have you made pompoms? warning: it's highly addictive!
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I’m currently sewing dog bow ties that I donate to animal shelters and rescue groups so the doggies can have bow ties to wear for photoshoots or adoption events 💗
maybe not entirely niche but I only learned of it lately myself- nalbinding. it's like the ancestor of crochet
Maybe not niche but try an English piece paper quilt.
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123 indexed entries draw on 356 distinct source records. Victorian hairwork has the broadest support in this group (29 source records).
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Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepointHand and machine stitching that builds a picture or pattern on top of fabric.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
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Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: 3D bead embroidery making mini things is my new obsession
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: cyanotyping, recycling art, 3d embroidery with fabric scraps, weaving to mend patches on pants, blanket stitch necklines, furniture painting, bug pinning, idek girl im in the same boat
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Have you done 3D needlepoint yet?
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Bargello is fun. Have you done that? It’s really easy. Not so niche, but I don’t know a lot of people who do it
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Tell me more!! I want to start beaded hand embroidery… I just got some supplies. I went to do my wedding dress and wallpaper!
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Bucilla felt stocking kits/wreath kits, cross stitching, blackwork cross stitch, tambour embroidery
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass making, book end painting, Chinese embroidery, hat making, shoe making, perfume making, soap making, bath bombs, ribbon flowers, paper beads, origami, plushy making, tarot cards (not a crafty hobby but very interesting) :3
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
What readers reported: Creweling/Crewel work is so pretty! I only ever see it at estate sales
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: I also find cross stitching really calming but I like to make them fun…
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Shuttle tatting. Bobbin lace. Tambour beading. Cutwork embroidery. Loom weaving.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: have you tried tatting? needle lace? {there's multiple types so learning those is fun!} crewelwork? free standing lace embroidery? my auntie does 双面绣 (double-sided embroidery), the really pretty embroidered screen 'paintings' and fans. i want to learn but totally terrified of messing it up with my perfectionism issues.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: This is something my grandma’s sister specialised in. This is a high quality woven table cloth she manipulated the singe strings of linen to make a pattern (that’s those holes, the yellow things are just embroidery) and then she’d crochet lace borders. I have no idea what this is called, just that it used to be done to German table cloths.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: embroidered bead purse
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: stitch into old photographs with bright floss. ❤
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: This isn’t necessarily niche but I combined crotchet, embroidery and beading to one project and it was so much fun!
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Pottery, stained glass making ,embroidery bracelets, beaded embroidery, Woodshop, welding.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Freemotion embroidery on a sewing machine - also called needle painting
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Freehand/free-motion machine embroidery. Get a sewing machine and a darning foot
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: have you tried tatting? needle lace? {there's multiple types so learning those is fun!} crewelwork? free standing lace embroidery? my auntie does 双面绣 (double-sided embroidery), the really pretty embroidered screen 'paintings' and fans. i want to learn but totally terrified of messing it up with my perfectionism issues.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Old timey crafts like embroidery with the hair of your loved one.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Hand smocking dresses like the whole way through, antique pleater wnd all
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Hardanger
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: norwegian bone needle knitting, bedazzling unconventional items, diy cds, medium difficulty string friendship bracelets, silk painting, hat embroidery, customize ur tech (headphones, cases, wires, charging blocks, etc)
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: miniature persian rugs in needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: gemstone faceting. rug tufting. marble sculpture. whittling. yarn making. mirrored embroidery and tambour beading
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: My current hyper fixation has been embroidering moss!
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
What readers reported: Crocheting, knitting or some kind of needle work
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Manual: Pearl embroidery medieval portraiture -> do a series on historical women to research ✨. or 🎨 fine arts: turkish illumination called Tezhip to upgrade your personal stationary
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: I want to learn this. Is there someone you would recommend following?
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: PLASTIC CANVAS
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Sashiko.
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Sashiko mending has been really fun to do in all of my jeans and jackets!
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: seed bead embroidery is the hobby i'm picking up to start this year off
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Tatting or silk ribbon embroidery
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: My mama learned to smock from my Mamaw , who learned from her mama. It’s a dying art!
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Embroider sneakers
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: i like stitchcraft 🤷🏻
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: Straight up silk. It’s also really hard to get those round frames tight enough which might be affecting your stitch
Best for: Embroidery, cross stitch & needlepoint
Why readers recommended it: thread painting. its like embroidery but with sewing thread... so, really really tiny and time consuming but so cool. OR, dorodango.
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TAMBOUR embroidery! I’m making a dress lol
Beaded embroidery is really fun
Don’t know if you have try cross stitch but I love it. ❤️
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48 indexed entries draw on 170 distinct source records. Tambour embroidery has the broadest support in this group (33 source records).
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Weaving, lace & macrameInterlacing threads, cords, or yarn on a loom or by hand into lace, cordage, or knotted textiles.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Weaving, lace & macrame
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Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Braided fabric rug 🤪 she’s a little lumpy but my three year old loves it!
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Coiled yarn baskets
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Tablet weaving, shuttle tatting, and fingerloop braiding are all really fun and pretty accessible! They’ve got great online communities too :)
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Fingerweaving? Beadwork?
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Hand weaving. Good luck out there 💕
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Horsehair braiding/weaving keepsakes
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: if you like fiber arts, there's needle crocheting, something specific to my town, it's called iğne oyası
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Kanzashi, Japanese fabric flowers.
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: I got super into kumihimo a while back, it's lots of fun! I am also on the hunt for new crafts constantly. Currently hyperfixated on 3D printing 😂
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: needle felting? lace weaving? book binding? leather? calligraphy and wax seals? glassblowing? I am racking my brain to think of anything that theres a chance you havent done lol id be kinda shocked if youve never made something with leather
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Do those lace wedding signs!
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Someone said lace weaving, I second that. It’s a dying craft and how tf do you even do that???
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Lacing it’s hard tho
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Loom weaving! I make tapestry weavings and I feel like that is pretty niche 🤷♀️
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Pine needle baskets, living willow structure, macrame, origami
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Thanks! I started with easy patterns and graduated from there. Lots of tutorials on YouTube!
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
What readers reported: I've been drawing mandalas, making knotted hemp plant hangers, and supplies to make Afghan kuchi necklaces like this one are on the way. Love the inspiration in the comments!
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Korean maedeup❤️❤️❤️
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: micro crochet jewelry ,tatting , micro macrame
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Shuttle tatting? Miniature rug weaving? Lace making? Natural dye making? Paint milling? Stained glass? Pine needle basket weaving? How niche are we talking here?
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Get into lace making. Like Victorian 180 needle lace making it’s crazy
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Tatting ( I prefer using a needle instead of a shuttle)
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: This and net making are on my list for trying soon. Want to do both soooo bad but very busy right now so it’ll be a few months before I can give it a shot I think.
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: 70s potholder loom? 5.00 Walmart 😂 or a knitting loom wheel , they still make them , hats, scarves, ...
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Romanian point lace. I haven’t tried it yet because I’m not allowed to pick up a new hobby until I move because I have too many craft supplies
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Made rugs already 🤪
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Making dollhouse miniatures and bobbin lace! And scottish weaving.
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Shuttle tatting. Bobbin lace. Tambour beading. Cutwork embroidery. Loom weaving.
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
What readers reported: Look up soutache, it’s done with fabric normally. However I work best with clay so I did soutache in polymer clay ✨
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: I’ve made shelves out of paper cardboard and glue. Also made mushroom shelves with glue and paint. I just made a basket out of an old t shirt last night.
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Make tapestrys!
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Wefting, carving, making prosthetics, prop making, shoe making, make puppets, chainmail
Best for: Weaving, lace & macrame
Why readers recommended it: Japanese Thimble Rings : Yubinuki. Or French Beaded Flowers. Lumography was fun to play with (using weird altered cameras to get cool shots) or IR photography.
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Macrame clothing 😅
have you ever done tatting lace work?
not the most niche but I've been obsessing over tablet weaving!
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45 indexed entries draw on 332 distinct source records. Tatting has the broadest support in this group (113 source records).
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Archive: 45 index entries preserve 332 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Crochet & knittingLooping yarn into fabric with a hook or needles, from amigurumi to arm knitting.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Crochet & knitting
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Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Have you done stained glass, linocut, printmaking, wood carving, amigurumi, pottery, 3D puzzles… trying to remember all the pens I’ve done this year 😂 obviously all the painting mediums and drawing
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Try making your own braided hemp necklaces or arm knitting
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Bead crochet purse
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Bead crochet bags (incredibly time consuming)
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: idk if its niche or not, but ive started crocheting beaded waist chains recently
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Metal clay jewelry, tatting, broomstick lace, fiber dying and spinning, leatherwork….endless
Best for: Crochet & knitting
What readers reported: I love making chunky hand knit blankets. super easy and can just watch a movie and make one in a couple hours.
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: This isn’t necessarily niche but I combined crotchet, embroidery and beading to one project and it was so much fun!
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Bobbin lace? crochet lace doilys? Irish lace making?
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Bobbin lace, crochet lace. Decoupage. String art pictures. Welding sculptures. Chainsaw sculptures. Marble sculptures
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Crochet necklaces is my new thing😂
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: crochet succulents
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Yes! I just discovered crocheting crystals and beads with a gold thread! Next video I see I’ll tag you!
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: mosaic crochet, metal clay jewelry, soft soldered jewelry, clay lighter cases, window "stained glass" clings, needle felting, rug tufting, shrinky dinks, tatting, fillet crochet, spinning, pony bead and perler bead stuff ✨
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Pipe cleaner flowers, finger knitting
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Tatting is very niche or Freeform crochet!!
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Interlocking Crochet!! Here's a queen blanket I made!
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Whole cloth hand quilting, tatting, Irish crochet (basically lace), etc. Antique pattern library is your friend
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried knitting with pet hair?
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Never delete this video queen. I need all the comments for my future self. Currently my projects are, crochet, candle making, those wood puzzles for book shelves, flower beads/pipe cleaners, loom knitting, & the punch carpet/coaster making craft.
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: It’s like tatting or if you already know how to crochet you can micro crochet that’s what I do sometimes
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: micro crochet jewelry ,tatting , micro macrame
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: mosaic crochet, metal clay jewelry, soft soldered jewelry, clay lighter cases, window "stained glass" clings, needle felting, rug tufting, shrinky dinks, tatting, fillet crochet, spinning, pony bead and perler bead stuff ✨
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Best for: Crochet & knitting
What readers reported: Norwegian color work sweaters
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: have you mastered every crochet technique? tunisian, mosaic, filet, colour pooling or wtvr its called, etc. you will never run out of things to crochet
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: not niche but use plarn to crochet totes for the homeless.
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Plastic bag crochet. It’s free so no guilt!
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: have you tried crocheting pony beads into a pixelated portrait? here's my statue of David progress
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: Yeah amigurumi with rubber bands
Best for: Crochet & knitting
Why readers recommended it: if you've done knitting and you've done crochet (or just one or the other) you would learn tunisian crochet really easily. or you could try lace tatting
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Knitting!!! Made this sweater
Irish lace, bobbin lace, bone collecting
Crochet is the best honestly and there’s so many niche things within crochet like stuffed animals or artwork you can hang it’s really versatile and super fun!!
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35 indexed entries draw on 97 distinct source records. Crochet has the broadest support in this group (38 source records).
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Dyeing, spinning & fiber processingPreparing raw or finished fiber -- spinning, dyeing, and processing wool or plant fiber into usable yarn or cloth.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
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Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Algae yarn?
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Indigenous arts! Quill art, beadwork, copper bar fabric dying.
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: victorian hair jewelry/hair art, flint napping, drop spindling your pet's soft underbelly fur, nalbinding, basket weaving with invasive species (i'm doing this rn!)
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Not sure I recommend but, I’m going to try dying the fabric on my $1700 sofa’s 👀
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Metal clay jewelry, tatting, broomstick lace, fiber dying and spinning, leatherwork….endless
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: I have tried hundreds of different things and there are still so many out there that I haven't tried. pine needle basket, weaving, silk painting, fiber processing, spinning, miniature making.... there is also a whole list of endangered crafts found here: [link removed]
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: This spring I'd like to plant flax and try making my own linen
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Ice dye Tie dye [account]
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: indigo dying, tatting, paper making, Victorian hair art/jewelry
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: This spring I'd like to plant flax and try making my own linen
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Shuttle tatting? Miniature rug weaving? Lace making? Natural dye making? Paint milling? Stained glass? Pine needle basket weaving? How niche are we talking here?
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Plant dye! You can get the mineral dye on dharma co its sooo fun and SOOO UNIQUE i did altar clothes but we usuallty do clothes
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried using a drop spindle to make yarn from your pet’s fur?
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Paper making (gather the plants and cook an process the pulp and then do sheet formation). Wet felting. Needle felting. Tatting. Sewn tie dye. Mold making and casting. Metalwork (jewelry scale). Glass tile mosaics. Doll repaints.
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: How about spinning silk from cocoons? I’d set up that workshop for you!
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Textiles are basically endless in terms of all branches it could take. Dying, weaving, sewing, beading etc etc. after the basics, you could get into textile sculpture, block printing and carve your own blocks, anthotypes could compliment your cyanotype journey too
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
What readers reported: I LOVE batik dying or just really intricate tie dying
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: you can do stuff like this with sheep wool
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Carding and cleaning raw wool, spinning it into a fine yarn, and then weaving it into fabric. Then use the woven fabric to make a garment (you can also spin your own thread from wool)
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Spinning wool and make unique colors
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: You probably already have everything to try this! Yarn art on canvas
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: About a month. There is about 18 hours of weaving in ends and hand sewing
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: Making your own yarn/dying it and then using it in a knit/crochet project, block/relief printing, needle felting, weaving??? Not sure if you’ve crossed any of these off your list but here’s some new ones 😂
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Why readers recommended it: going to charity shops and dethreading the yarn from jumpers, especially if you're already into knitting/ crochet, not sure how but it's like breaking down a leggo build like Godzilla but positive
Best for: Dyeing, spinning & fiber processing
Source-record spotlights
my sister makes these sheep…. you can do this next.
I thought I was going to be original by saying “spinning yarn” but I see I need to go source supplies for all the new hobbies I just found!
I have tried hundreds of different things and there are still so many out there that I haven't tried. pine needle basket, weaving, silk painting, fiber processing, spinning, miniature making.... there is also a whole list of endangered crafts found here: [link removed]
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30 indexed entries draw on 74 distinct source records. Yarn spinning has the broadest support in this group (37 source records).
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FeltingTurning loose wool or fur fibers into solid felt, by hand or needle.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Felting
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Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Bucilla felt stocking kits/wreath kits, cross stitching, blackwork cross stitch, tambour embroidery
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Felting with cat hair, doll heads with peeled apples
Best for: Felting
Best for: Felting
What readers reported: I recently house/dog sat for a family who saved their dogs wool/fur from brushing her and would make felt toys etc with it 🤣 maybe you can make personalised felt animals
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Felt books
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Felt busy board!
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: My fyp is full of felt busy books for toddlers
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: I’m unfortunately REALLY into felt stockings and anything felt atm
Limit: I’m unfortunately REALLY into felt stockings and anything felt atm
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Felt flowers
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: I’m making felt keychains (this one is not done I need to jazz it up with beads and stuff)
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Felt plush keychains
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Bucilla stocking?
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: your mom sent this to me too 😂 how do I explain my top crafts.... decorate clean bones and sew felt into imaginary animals 😅
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Check out the bucilla felt wreath kits
Best for: Felting
What readers reported: Work with Felties. Very niche but also very fun!
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Needle felt “painting” - it’s making what looks like a painting but with wool felting
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: I always recommend needle felting for something cheap and easy. I think I got my kit for like $15-20 and I’ve made tons and still have a lot left. Plus you get to stab stuff. This is one of my fav things I’ve made with it.
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Wet Felting! You can make hats, scarves shoes, all types of garments etc. You can also do painting with felt, it’s similar to needle felting which was already suggested. You can even add designs to clothing you already have using the technique. Felting is versatile and super fun.
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: If u have a cat or a dog u can like turn their fur into yarn… and make sumthin or make a mini version of them w their fur
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Taxidermy, needle felting pet hair, acrylic nails
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: I like sewing foods out of felt
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Felt a bar of soap. It's a cute hyper focus.
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Felting
Best for: Felting
Why readers recommended it: Pysanky eggs, or wool felting animals
Where commenters report limits
I’m unfortunately REALLY into felt stockings and anything felt atm
Source-record spotlights
Needle felt sculptures
bonsai, needle felting, and book binding
Stained glass, pottery, needle felting, sculpture, mosaic
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26 indexed entries draw on 137 distinct source records. Needle felting has the broadest support in this group (74 source records).
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Miniatures, models and assemblageMiniatures, models and assemblage — 100 items
Figures, props & assemblage artSculpting, customizing, and assembling figures, props, and found-object art at small scale.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Figures, props & assemblage art
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Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: kinda niche but kinda not, im hoping to learn how to make toys and dolls with 3d resin printers this year. i dont mean those dragons or articulated garbage everyone prints for craft fairs, Im talking designing my own toys like they would have a legit line for in a big box store. ive been in concept for it so long its finally time to start 🥰
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Action figure customization? I did an entire line of myself and my wife in different genres from Star Wars to adventurer to fantasy to pirates ….
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: it's kinda big on tiktok right now but beanie baby taxidermy?! so fun!! or bobbin lace making since its a dying art?
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Calico critter customization, furniture, clothing, eyes from bubble nail charms, eyeshadow to color them like real life animal colors! Setting powder to set the color 🥰
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I know this is crazy but get in to dungeons & dragons. Map making, figurine and character making
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Cobbling, micro crochet, book binding, book edge painting, making door hinge toppers (3d print or sculpt), & earring jackets (Liz fox Roseberry has tutorials)
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
What readers reported: I do a lot of niche artwork, I make healing dolls and craft together anything from nature and whatever to make a doll and use it as a healing doll. Like a walnut for a head, crystals and sticks. Also I make witches bells for home protection.…
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
What readers reported: i love making fairy miniatures from scratch (using mostly natural materials i gather myself outside)
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I create fake biomes in globes
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I know this is crazy but get in to dungeons & dragons. Map making, figurine and character making
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
What readers reported: Here’s my list of things I have an embarrassing amount of money invested in. Some I liked, some not as much: Rug Hooking, glass lamp work ( have the whole set up),silver enameling ( have a ton of money it- haven’t tried it yet🙄), silver clay,…
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Make a diy pop figure of yourself with interchangable assecories
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I was in the same stump and decided to start life size dinosaur models (I'm fiberarts this crap is hard lol)
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Custom lps
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: idk but I want someone to make bougie figurines from makeup containers 🤣 I can decorate my bathroom with 👀😆
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I like to put together those mini brands things you can buy. or leggos lol
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried making mini figures? Like D&D or warhammer ones are cool as you can stick them together and paint or buy pre made! Sorry I’m a nerd😂😂
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Building the furniture for inside from random recycled stuff and the interior decorating of it all omg my dream
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Rolife?
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
What readers reported: I love mini things! I’m a metalworker/machinist and I love making tiny versions of everyday stuff 😅 I’ll try to get you some pics tomorrow, but you could do it with anything it wouldn’t have to be metal! You could use an exacto knife and soft plastic even it…
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Warhammer is a nerdy board game but there’s a bunch of little figurines and people paint their own armies and stuff. Won’t be niche much longer since I think there’s a movie or show being made. Henry Cavill is doing it 🥰
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: miniature sets they’re so fun
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Miniverse
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Model kits like painting figures
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Mouse armor
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I just made this cake prop for my daughters dance team. I made candles to go with it but don’t have a pic.
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: a big ol reliquary with everything you have lol
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
What readers reported: Pine needle baskets are beautiful and fun. Needle felting gets my aggression out. I also love to create “self portraits” out of repurposed toys, junk drawer items and broken jewelry. Really anything that speaks to me at that time in my life.
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Those cute little clay like resin Knick nacks! I have no idea what they’re specifically called
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Those cute little clay like resin Knick nacks! I have no idea what they’re specifically called
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I have always wanted to build a ship in a bottle…..
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: I was in a heavy needle felting small animas with llama fur for a while lol also creating miniature snow globes with Mason jars. Lets start a club lol
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Making spun cotton figures is so fun, you just need cotton balls and glue. Also dried apple head dolls are really cool
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: repainting the bottom of tech decks and building them!
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
What readers reported: I had a diy my little pony phase. Repainted them, new hair, the works.
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: kinda niche but kinda not, im hoping to learn how to make toys and dolls with 3d resin printers this year. i dont mean those dragons or articulated garbage everyone prints for craft fairs, Im talking designing my own toys like they would have a legit line for in a big box store. ive been in concept for it so long its finally time to start 🥰
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Whittling, functional origami, Barbie restoration, papier-mâché, quilting
Best for: Figures, props & assemblage art
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
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Building the furniture for inside from random recycled stuff and the interior decorating of it all omg my dream
I create fake biomes in globes
I was in the same stump and decided to start life size dinosaur models (I'm fiberarts this crap is hard lol)
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40 indexed entries draw on 80 distinct source records. Miniature making has the broadest support in this group (28 source records).
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Dolls & doll customizationMaking, repainting, or restyling dolls and doll-scale figures.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Dolls & doll customization
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Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: create a BJD Doll from scratch
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Make a Blythe doll of yourself!!! I made this!!!! Carved her face and painted makeup on and eyes too ✨
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: I was super into creepy doll making a few years ago… but didn’t sell well in my area so I gave up. Now I’m onto mirror etching .. we will see how long that lasts..
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
What readers reported: I got into customizing dolls in 2020. Now its my full time job I love it
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: I do doll customization and you could try redoing faces and rerooting hair, very time consuming but you could make anyone!
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: I do doll customization and you could try redoing faces and rerooting hair, very time consuming but you could make anyone!
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: girl get into doll making its niche, multiple crafting elements. involves sewing, painting, coloring, you can even reroot dolls which is soothing and time consuming
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Paper making (gather the plants and cook an process the pulp and then do sheet formation). Wet felting. Needle felting. Tatting. Sewn tie dye. Mold making and casting. Metalwork (jewelry scale). Glass tile mosaics. Doll repaints.
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: girl get into doll making its niche, multiple crafting elements. involves sewing, painting, coloring, you can even reroot dolls which is soothing and time consuming
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Refurbishing dolls🥰 You can even make yourself a mini you and continue to see clothes for her xx
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: I dont have the money yet but I desperately want to turn one of those fancy huge doll houses you build yourself into a haunted house book shelf.
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Dollhouse refurbishing and then decorating it with mini furniture you make. Kinda like book nook but freestyle
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: My grandparents did this and I have 2 unfinished ones from when my grandpa died. I’ve been thinking about pulling them out a lot lately 😅
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Dollhouse miniatures! You’re never too old to rediscover this amazing hobby! 🥰🙌✨
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been redoing a dollhouse and it’s so fun for me. I’ve made a lot of things for it too. I don’t build the actual house but I did everything else.
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: A dollhouse replica of your home
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: I take really ugly statues that I find at Goodwill or other places like yard sales and I make my own clay, and I turn it into something else. I also make tiny tiny fairies that sew.
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Reborning 👶
Best for: Dolls & doll customization
Why readers recommended it: Restore old wooden dollhouses. The crafting options are endless in a project like this.
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u can build a dollhouse from scratch like I did lmao
I got that $12 doll house from target as a gift and I’ve been slowly collecting items to decorate it with
not thatt niche ig but make custom blythe dolls of you & your friends & gift them, it’s so fun & u can get extremely detailed w it
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19 indexed entries draw on 84 distinct source records. Dollhouse making has the broadest support in this group (25 source records).
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Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramasBuilding tiny furnished spaces, from book nooks to full dioramas.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
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Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I was going to come here and say tiny houses and book nooks and now that I’ve spent an hour in the comments that feels so basic 🤦🏻♀️
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I built a house out of a jar and cardboard. the jar is upside down so I can slide a light inside of it from the bottom of the house. The chimney also has a hole in the bottom so I can put an incense cone in it and smoke rolls out the top of the chimney. 🥰
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
What readers reported: I haven't started yet but I saw someone put a coffee pot outside the dumpster. I thought it would be so cool to make it look like a couple were in a cute little coffee shop and that could be decor for our coffee corner at home! I dont love AI but I did have i…
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: 😍😍😍😍 this is similar to what i do but i use old wrist watches!
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I make fairy houses for the garden out of everything nature.
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: Glove box diorama?!
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: My sister makes dioramas of dead bugs. She sets them up in “room” like settings, carving future out of erasers, having them sit cross legged on a chair reading a new paper, with a monocle. Playing piano. Making everything to decorate the room.…
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I built a house out of a jar and cardboard. the jar is upside down so I can slide a light inside of it from the bottom of the house. The chimney also has a hole in the bottom so I can put an incense cone in it and smoke rolls out the top of the chimney. 🥰
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I’m a crafter are you sure you’ve done it all? I spiral bound a golden book junk journal last week. My to do list is * trying resin art but with like cement or mortar * Making sticky notes * Glue book binding *making an miniature art gallery in a shadow box *making funny valentines cards *jewelry making with broken jewelry
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: building tiny houses/diorama in recycled containers. like an empty jug of milk - building a milk farm or so. or making tiny witch houses in candle jars
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I was going to come here and say tiny houses and book nooks and now that I’ve spent an hour in the comments that feels so basic 🤦🏻♀️
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: Make little mini greenhouses and houses. You can buy kits for them 😄
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: mosaic glass art if you really have the time & $ or mini museums are a fun little project
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: You can build a fun miniature room or cute scene! Theres a trend of doing a miniature art museum all over TikTok rn
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: Currently trying to build a mini village! Just finished the restaurant/bar
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: Yes honey I built a miniature world like the one on Beetlejuice very crafty very time consuming
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I’d like to make nutshell study houses, that would be fun
Best for: Dollhouses, miniature rooms & dioramas
Why readers recommended it: I use old scrabble tiles and miniatures and make funny shadow boxes
Source-record spotlights
Turning thrifted objects into little houses/dioramas
have you tried the book nook/miniature versions of every arts and crafts you've done in the world??
35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games, raspberry pi projects, butterfly/moth breeding, mushroom growing, spray painting, rock tumbling, cosplaying, zentangle… I could go on and on
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19 indexed entries draw on 86 distinct source records. Book nook making has the broadest support in this group (37 source records).
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Model kits & building setsAssembling kits and construction sets, from Lego to Gunpla to scale models.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Model kits & building sets
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Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: 3d building sets with the little hammers. It’s relaxing and a rage room all in one.
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: I just started doing 3d wooden puzzle houses. I have done mostly the rolife ones like bakery and xmas ones but im addicted. ive done 6 in 9 days 🤣🤣
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Idk but I’m about make a midsize scale of my childhood home
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Its a deep dive but, learning to craft automatons?
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: I MAKE LEGO SETS AND THEN BEDAZZLE THEM
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Gundam models
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: I like to put together those mini brands things you can buy. or leggos lol
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: metal earth
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Mini metal models and book nooks!
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Model plane- from the vintage model company, it even has tech so the plane can fly at the end
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: When I get bored I build houses out of qtips
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Rc cars! Painting the body’s is so fun. I like 1/10 scale drift cars.
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: Painting TTRPG miniatures
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Best for: Model kits & building sets
Why readers recommended it: 😍😍😍😍 this is similar to what i do but i use old wrist watches!
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😍😍😍😍 this is similar to what i do but i use old wrist watches!
3d building sets with the little hammers. It’s relaxing and a rage room all in one.
Mini metal models and book nooks!
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15 indexed entries draw on 24 distinct source records. Lego building has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Miniature food & everyday-object replicasRecreating food, tools, and objects at doll or pocket scale.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
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Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: Making fake food?
Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: i am starting to make ingredients for miniature food out of fuse beads. Basically melting plastic beads and creating lettuce, tomato slices, ect
Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: Miniature food made out of clay lol
Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: I make small fruits and veggies and put them in tiny jars like their pickled or jam
Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: I just started making mini food magnets for my fridge out of polymer clay. This is my first one ❤
Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: mini verse basically a kids toy but shouldn’t since it’s resin made mini foods
Best for: Miniature food & everyday-object replicas
Why readers recommended it: have you seen the girl who made a tech deck for mermaids out of a shell? I'm barely keeping myself from doing it immediately
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I just started making mini food magnets for my fridge out of polymer clay. This is my first one ❤
i am starting to make ingredients for miniature food out of fuse beads. Basically melting plastic beads and creating lettuce, tomato slices, ect
have you seen the girl who made a tech deck for mermaids out of a shell? I'm barely keeping myself from doing it immediately
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7 indexed entries draw on 11 distinct source records. Miniature food magnet making has the broadest support in this group (3 source records).
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Paper and book artsPaper and book arts — 111 items
Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craftEverything else built from paper -- flowers, papermaking, zines, and paper sculpture.
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Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Happy mail swaps, paper crafting, 3D paper crafting, die cut paper piecing
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Ok hear me out- search 3d sticker scenes and it’s like arts and crafts putting on layers of sticks to crate this little scene thing you’ve got a picture of. It’s addicting
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Making book boxes for board games!!
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I'm 55 and have done every damn craft. I stopped crafting for about 3 years. A friend gave me a gift that happened to be inside a Cartonnage box. I can't even remember the gift but I've made hundreds of containers since! Love it! And it can be as basic or as intricate as you want. It's inexpensive or costly and super easy or highly skilled.…
What readers reported: I'm 55 and have done every damn craft. I stopped crafting for about 3 years. A friend gave me a gift that happened to be inside a Cartonnage box.…
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: my friend and I did construction paper portraits, that was pretty fun
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I once made paper flowers out of crepe paper I think it is called, you can go really into detail and make realistic looking or make up your own flowers. Should be tutorials online.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Buy a Cricut- the possibilities are endless 🤭
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried foil embossing?
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I have a cigar box full of thousands of words I’ve cut from magazines and books and stuff. I make random note poetry.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Just found this yesterday….freehand hot foiling ❤
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: My mom does these giant paper flower displays for the rooms of all the girls in the family. Very special, beautiful, and takes just enough skill to make you feel good but is easy enough to offer doing it for poeople on regular basis
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Low poly papercraft. My fave for a mindless keep-my-hands-busy type of crafting. Use cheap supplies if it’s something seasonal you’ll just end up tossing or use cardstock if you want it to last
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I punch holes out of magazines and make dot art
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
What readers reported: LoveMail... nope not for lovers, you send a letter on beautiful stationery, filled with beautiful flat gifts to anyone and you make it clear that you don't expect a letter back... it's just to love on someone. [site removed]
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
What readers reported: I love to glue tiny little things on whatever I what. These were Xmas cards with live needles!
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I just saw a girl rolling magazine pages into ratan and wove baskets out of them
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Craft paper chain curtains for every season/holiday
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: There’s a way to make clutch purses out of printed papers, paint and whatever else as long as you use sandwich paper (like port of subs uses), and you see them together with a sewing machine. They are pretty damn sturdy. I have no idea what to call this but I made them and sold them for fun years ago lol.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I make and send out happy mail. It’s not exactly a craft but it’s fun and rewarding. I do make paper crafts to send out like bookmarks and paper origami items like sticker pockets. I get the addresses to send to from several happy mail groups on FB.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I don’t know if it’s niche, but lately I’ve been making custom Paper dolls and paper doll clothes.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I just started paper engineering and I am obsessed with!!
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: making figurines put of papeb
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: These are beautiful! I’ve been looking for something like this to do the wall in my bedroom
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Paper flower and plant making!!!
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: making paper ring garlands and paper stars as decor
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Not niche but nobody thinks about this, making a fur suit is a really cool art and craft that takes a lot of time and effort and if you don’t want it you could sell it. Also paper hand dragons
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I started making these tim holtz paper houses, they lift up so you can do a bday with a tiny gift inside.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I saw someone on here making paper squishies that looked satisfying!
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: paper stars. so comforting and great for just something to do with your hands
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
What readers reported: make paper mâché items for your wall- not my art but love buying them
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Idk how niche it is but if you get into book binding you can make and use ur own journals. Paper making goes hand in hand
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Make parchment [link removed]
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: pergamano. It’s like punching little holes in special paper to make it look like lace. My mom did it and got me into it for a bit. Total grandma craft but very relaxing.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I make a newspaper about myself every month and tape it to the fridge. journal thoughts, a skill I’m learning (pastels), places visited, things eaten, textural bits (sea glass, dried plants etc). The “newspaper” is a paper bag from a nearby market.…
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: keep it super classic. take all the photos from your phone and make photo albums.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Started a business making piñatas, and then not long after I learned that i despise doing the business aspect of it. Now I just offer to make them for friends, family and their kids because I enjoy the craft :) — this is the most recent
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Making puffy paper stars and then making them into curtain beads 🥰
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: LMAO it’s genuinely so cathartic I do it whenever I’m annoyed at someone or something
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Crosses made of sheet music 🥰 this was my biggest, 3 feet tall. I made it for my mom who got the sheet music for me from the Salvation Army ❤
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Soul Collage!!!
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I like stickers by number
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: i just bought a sticker book today w over 1000 stickers to make collages with i recommend
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Analog stickers! Draw and cut out your designs and run them through a xyron sticker maker.
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Its bit different BUT so relaxing omg! U basically have a backround and then u put small stickers w tweezers on their right place🥺 U dont even notice how much u spend doing these and they come out so cute
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: I’m making toilet paper roll boxes
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Best for: Paper sculpture, flowers & mixed paper craft
Why readers recommended it: Making crosswords. Woodwork. Zines. Design underwear. Street photography. Pen pals/letter writing.
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I have a cigar box full of thousands of words I’ve cut from magazines and books and stuff. I make random note poetry.
Random acts of happy mail on Facebook is a fun group too!
What about hand-binding books like with book cloth & the whole thing where they look like vintage books. Or putting gemstones & other things with leather to make hand-made notebooks. You can also make your one paper & add in dried flowers, colors, oils, etc.
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52 indexed entries draw on 130 distinct source records. Papermaking has the broadest support in this group (39 source records).
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Bookbinding, book art & journalingConstructing, altering, and keeping books -- from bookbinding to bullet journals.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
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Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I bedazzle books...🤷🏼♀️
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I bleach paint! Slightly niche. More niche things I really want to do: paint my own tarot deck, make a custom book cover, diy faux stained glass
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I’m going to try and find a kit! That’s cool! I like the nook books but they’re pricey.
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Hollowed out book to hide treasures
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Rebinding paper back books into hard backs 🥰 My newest obsession
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
What readers reported: I started bookbinding🫶 I’ve gifted my friends homemade blank journals, their fav fanfics, and now I love to thrift old books and restore their covers!!
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: needle felting? lace weaving? book binding? leather? calligraphy and wax seals? glassblowing? I am racking my brain to think of anything that theres a chance you havent done lol id be kinda shocked if youve never made something with leather
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I make semamori patterns. the design is the exact same on the front and back because you sew in a certain way to not ever double back over a line. I make cards, bookmarks, and of course I sew certain patterns on the back of shirts
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: bullet journailing, pointilism & spoon carving
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: cork board scrapbooks! using stamps, ribbon, fabric, handwriting quotes
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Hear me out… it’s very low cost (if any) so if you haven’t tried ✨FOLDED BOOK ART✨ - give it a whirl 😬
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
What readers reported: Well I just trying make a mf journal cover and that was a handy work
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I’m into bookbinding and journal making at the moment
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Idk about niche but I collected sea shells then turned them into magnets for my fridge. Bedazzled everything. Color me mine weekly. Junk journal.
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I started making leather journals
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Making matchbook notepads
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I like making miniature books out of scrap paper
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: get a scrapbook and go on hikes and collect leaves, sticks, shrooms, anything that calls your attention stick it to the book and collect it. Experiment with it. Make a description, become a gnome.
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Look up planner notebook on YouTube!! Scrapbooking your planner in a notebook lol
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Popup books
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Scrapbook cook book?
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Bookbinding, book art & journaling
Why readers recommended it: Card making, book binding, converting vintage children’s books in to junk journals, making notebooks out of old VHS cases.
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does book binding count?
bonsai, needle felting, and book binding
Bookbinding!! I made a super cute notebook the other night!
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27 indexed entries draw on 161 distinct source records. Bookbinding has the broadest support in this group (87 source records).
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Paper cutting, quilling & decoupageCutting, coiling, and layering paper into decorative designs.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
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Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: Yes we used to do this in the 70’s. Also did 3d on wood with pictures from magazines and mod podge.
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: my mom does chinese paper cutting!
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: Bobbin lace, crochet lace. Decoupage. String art pictures. Welding sculptures. Chainsaw sculptures. Marble sculptures
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: Decoupage shadow boxes
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: Happy mail swaps, paper crafting, 3D paper crafting, die cut paper piecing
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: I’m trying die cutting rn idk if u done that before
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
What readers reported: I do music related products and people love them.
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: Map cutting. I’ve only just started so this is a trial one of Siem Reap in Cambodia
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: bookbinding ....papercutting...
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
Why readers recommended it: German paper cutting is neato
Best for: Paper cutting, quilling & decoupage
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My grandma was really into paper quilling
Indigenous arts! Quill art, beadwork, copper bar fabric dying.
well next on my list is a tiktok I saw of a girl making homemade tiles (decorative) with air dry clay and and decoupage napkins. they're gorgeoussssss
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12 indexed entries draw on 147 distinct source records. Paper quilling has the broadest support in this group (129 source records).
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Scrapbooking, cards & stationeryPreserving memories and making paper goods to send, from scrapbooks to greeting cards.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
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Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: Thank you! Just an x-acto knife and a bunch of old magazines and I glued and sealed w matte mod podge. And a lot of patience! Took DAYS to do the deck
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: Have you ever got into making ur own paper? 🤔 U can combine it with so many other pursuits: pressed flowers, paper maché, obviously drawing and painting, junk journaling, scrapbooking, decoupage, making gift boxes, gift wrap, origami, mixed media art, marbling,…
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: Have you ever got into making ur own paper? 🤔 U can combine it with so many other pursuits: pressed flowers, paper maché, obviously drawing and painting, junk journaling, scrapbooking, decoupage, making gift boxes, gift wrap, origami, mixed media art, marbling,…
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: I make and send out happy mail. It’s not exactly a craft but it’s fun and rewarding. I do make paper crafts to send out like bookmarks and paper origami items like sticker pockets. I get the addresses to send to from several happy mail groups on FB.
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: If you’re spiritual you could make your own tarot or Oracle deck. Or if you’re not, you could make a deck of affirmation cards or a deck of journal prompts (if you journal)
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: I’m a crafter are you sure you’ve done it all? I spiral bound a golden book junk journal last week. My to do list is * trying resin art but with like cement or mortar * Making sticky notes * Glue book binding *making an miniature art gallery in a shadow box *making funny valentines cards *jewelry making with broken jewelry
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: If you’re spiritual you could make your own tarot or Oracle deck. Or if you’re not, you could make a deck of affirmation cards or a deck of journal prompts (if you journal)
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried making boxes out of the toliet paper rolls!
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: Currently recycling Christmas cards into gift tags using a Sizzix
Best for: Scrapbooking, cards & stationery
Why readers recommended it: needle felting? lace weaving? book binding? leather? calligraphy and wax seals? glassblowing? I am racking my brain to think of anything that theres a chance you havent done lol id be kinda shocked if youve never made something with leather
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Not the nichest but making custom card decks also
Random acts of happy mail on Facebook is a fun group too!
Have you tried wax sealing? It is so fun and you can get super complex and creative with it! I like turning the seals into magnets!
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11 indexed entries draw on 29 distinct source records. Cardmaking has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Origami & paper foldingFolding flat paper into three-dimensional shapes, from cranes to tessellations.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Origami & paper folding
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Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: 3D origami. You basically make your own legos
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: Iris paper folding! It’s so much fun and it looks really cool
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: folding kusudamas🙏🙏 (modular origami) you can then string them into hangings or whatever— such a meditative and rewarding origami project!!
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: I make origami flowers and add them to wreath forms.
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: Origami mobiles!
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: Do you make those little stars?
Best for: Origami & paper folding
Why readers recommended it: Origami tessellations
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I make origami flowers and add them to wreath forms.
35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games, raspberry pi projects, butterfly/moth breeding, mushroom growing, spray painting, rock tumbling, cosplaying, zentangle… I could go on and on
Mathematical origami
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9 indexed entries draw on 24 distinct source records. Origami has the broadest support in this group (15 source records).
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Mixed or unspecified craftMixed or unspecified craft — 171 items
Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiositiesPaint-by-number kits, collage, taxidermy-adjacent oddities, and one-of-a-kind curiosities.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
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Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Making spun cotton figures is so fun, you just need cotton balls and glue. Also dried apple head dolls are really cool
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Burning Man art car
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Also, Artist Trading cards! You can do them collage style, mixed media, paint, pencil, etc. I even had some one make me one out of melted plastic beads. You can trade them with other artists online. I used swapbot .
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: barbed wire!
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Paint an acrylic painting on canvas then bead detail. See my page for example
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Here’s one I just made today yall
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
What readers reported: Idk but this girl I follow on IG makes these whimsical bongs… I don’t even smoke but I think there so cute! I’d love to learn how to make them
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Boondoggle
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Saw this guy on here who would crush cans into shapes like squares n stuff
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: I’m making mine into cat toys 😆
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: norwegian bone needle knitting, bedazzling unconventional items, diy cds, medium difficulty string friendship bracelets, silk painting, hat embroidery, customize ur tech (headphones, cases, wires, charging blocks, etc)
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: decapoge shells
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Crafty queens can you recommend a hobby for me? I have terrible ADHD. I’ve done diamond painting which i find really relaxing and enjoyable but it kinda feels like a waste of time bc it’s not very creative
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: I’ve seen someone make pictures from their dryer lint
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: fly fish lure making !! super pretty and tedious and very niche
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Foil transfers to make your shoes shiny and custom
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Foiling! I do shoes and handbags
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: My fellow artist friends and I collect space junk and create collage art. You make a small difference cleaning the environment and a small difference new life and energy to scraps. This is my friends:
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: If you want really niche: bobbin lace, tating, hair art. I always go back to Victorian crafts
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: my latest craft obsession is freehand wood burning on cowboy hats
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
What readers reported: I do a lot of niche artwork, I make healing dolls and craft together anything from nature and whatever to make a doll and use it as a healing doll. Like a walnut for a head, crystals and sticks. Also I make witches bells for home protection.…
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: My latest post literally has all the hobbies I tried this year 😜 but have you tried candle making, paint by the numbers, embroidery, heat pressing mugs or clothes?
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Making Jade walnuts. Or that Japanese art of polishing dirt balls called Hikaru Dorodango
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: make a lighter case!
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: This girl on here did a cute the hungry caterpillar shelf out of sturdy cardboard and it was so cute I wanna make it . I alternated an old iPod shuffle and did it as a hair clip , tech deck necklace . I like getting nail decor and decking out lighters :) I’m a craft addict
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Painting and bedazzling lighters not niche but fun nonetheless
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: epoxy saltwater trolling lure heads. like tge ones that look like there’s a real fish head inside. i’ll buy from you.
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: marble mazes
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Orgonite
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: So take a paint by number but fill the spaces with thread or glitter
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: So take a paint by number but fill the spaces with thread or glitter
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: painting with sown in details
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Another one is these bead thingys that u iron when ur done w the design, and u can even make some cute/girly stuff! I usually searched the patterns from pinterest
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Pixyles
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Beanie baby dissection
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Make porch gooses out of air clay and make little outfits out of felt
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: potion bottles? mica powder
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: sand/rice art, miniature watercolor paintings, super realistic miniatures (1:6) or smaller, I use to make nature scenes/trees out of sticks/dirt/dried plants and rocks.
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: got empty bottles that are too cool to throw away? use them to make colored sand bottles
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: I make sculptural collages out of found objects and all my many crafts. This one was a metal tin from some staples I bought, wrapped in roving I needle felted to look like the ocean and beaded sitting on a base I cut from a “black pearl” cigar box and metal feet.…
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
What readers reported: takes some work.. but follow the tides schedule & hunt for seaglass.. then create something w it
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Idk i just typically make out pieces out of my hair on the shower wall
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: make shrink dink buttons, then use them to make a bracelet like this :)
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: silicone mermaid tops/accessories/tails
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: silicone mermaid tops/accessories/tails
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: My plan is to put skeletons back together like mobiles but like they have bones displayed at museums
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Ever tried doing artwork on skulls?
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: i made squishy from scratch. i sculpt out of clay, cast that in silicone, pour 2part polyurethane, and then paint it 😛 still working on perfecting it
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Embroidery, sticker art, paint by numbers, diamond art, jewelry making, & key chain making
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: stuffed animal taxidermy! it’s very easy and so cute to hang on the wall
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Making your own tar
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: norwegian bone needle knitting, bedazzling unconventional items, diy cds, medium difficulty string friendship bracelets, silk painting, hat embroidery, customize ur tech (headphones, cases, wires, charging blocks, etc)
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Currently making a custom play tissue box toy out of felt and other materials for my friend who is expecting. Not sure how niche but very very fun!
Best for: Novelty painting, collage & specialty curiosities
Why readers recommended it: Water elf’s are a quick fun little thing to do!
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Beanie baby dissection
Clay and paint on lighters?
Currently making a custom play tissue box toy out of felt and other materials for my friend who is expecting. Not sure how niche but very very fun!
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Costume, puppetry & keepsake charmsCosplay pieces, puppets, and small charms and ornaments made as gifts or keepsakes.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
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Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Making personalized advent calendars
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Fairy/angel wings
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
What readers reported: not niche but I love making bag charms out of my trinkets 🙈
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Balloon flower arrangements
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: I stumbled upon my niche doing balloon installations for events at my father’s bar .. now I’m the “balloon girl”.. it’s not a lot of overhead and not to costly to make… I have fun with it
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: I saw a girl who makes flowers out of bones. 🦴 that’s pretty niche 😅
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: My plan is to put skeletons back together like mobiles but like they have bones displayed at museums
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Have seen the charm bag on hoops seems pretty cool.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Make a full suit of armor out of foam and warbla ☺️
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Cracker box ornaments. The most beautiful things you’ll ever see. So many fun colors and textures!
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been really into making dream catchers lately out of doilies, lace, vintage sheets, ribbons & faux flowers ✌🏼
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: EVA Foam Cosplay. I’ve made some of my favorite things out of it!
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Fairy/angel wings
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: hi. I accidentally became a fire dancer. and I make my own equipment. I feel like art you set on fire is pretty niche
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: This was literally my next video on fyp so I had to screenshot and come back to ya LOL this girl makes handicap ‘wheelchairs’ for her fish 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: If you wanna make some bread get into making military promotion/ End of Service awards and gifts 🙏🏻
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Homecoming mums - if you aren’t from the south.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: lei making or graduation stoles.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Mardi Gras flowers
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: My gf sent me a cool video of a gal making pins with cans. Cutting out shapes and then using tools to stamp and create designs. Another woman made little boxes with the metal and then added clay faces. I was thinking to make a chain belt with dangly ornaments hanging off. Like a giant charm necklace but a belt.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: If you wanna make some bread get into making military promotion/ End of Service awards and gifts 🙏🏻
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: I just ordered the Christmas vintage ornament kits! I’ve actually never been good at sewing so let’s see how this goes.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Obsessed with the pipecleaner flowers or the pasta angels!!!
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Pipe cleaner bouquets?
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Ok superrr niche but if you look up pipe cleaner crafts on Pinterest. So cutie!
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: idk about niche, but i make flowers out of pipe cleaners ✨️
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Wefting, carving, making prosthetics, prop making, shoe making, make puppets, chainmail
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: These remind me of the Audrey II puppet I made for my daughter‘s Halloween costume last year
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Paint seashells into ornaments
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: I make sock puppets.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: spider suncatchers they are so pretty!
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Spun cotton ornaments. I’m obsessed.
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: Asian wax flowers 🌺
Best for: Costume, puppetry & keepsake charms
Why readers recommended it: wax hands lol
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Bag Charms! I'm obsessed with making them!
I loved making dream catchers and bathbombs (:
Wefting, carving, making prosthetics, prop making, shoe making, make puppets, chainmail
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34 indexed entries draw on 80 distinct source records. Pipe cleaner flower making has the broadest support in this group (29 source records).
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Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can craftsTurning cans, cardboard, electronics, and other castoffs into new objects.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
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Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: So lately I’ve just seen pipe cleaner flowers and can art and my adhd needs me to try
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: folding cans! Just look up some videos idk how to explain it lol I looked up "origami cans" and it was the first thing that popped up
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Aluminum can moving mosaics
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make biomaterials!!
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: A button/pin maker they are cheap and you can make whatever kind you’d like
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Wrap cars
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Cardboard sea animals.
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: I craft with cardboard, making all sorts of things big and small. This printer stand is one of my bigger ones
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: I got deep into dice making for a minute.
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make a portrait out of DICE
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: If all else fails, go back to the og crafts…duct tape wallets, bows, bracelets 😂😂😭
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: duct tape prom dress
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: This girl on here did a cute the hungry caterpillar shelf out of sturdy cardboard and it was so cute I wanna make it . I alternated an old iPod shuffle and did it as a hair clip , tech deck necklace . I like getting nail decor and decking out lighters :) I’m a craft addict
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Turn a golf cart into the foodie truck.
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: change the paint fill on your golf putter. acetone to remove the paint, testers acrylic paint. lots of q-tips and some paper towels.
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Embroidery, sticker art, paint by numbers, diamond art, jewelry making, & key chain making
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: I just got a laser cuter/engraver it is amazing and endless
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: considering making magnets of my clothes and building outfits on my fridge
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Have u done shrinky-dink key chains? So cute
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make skelly bottle caps. Its metal bottle caps with broken crayon pieces swirled together. Super easy and you can use the sun in the summer or radiator heat to melt it.
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: There is a lady that had a stand at a craft festival with all sorts of animals made out of tin cans and I think it was the most unique thing I saw there. She just cuts up cans and nails them to wood
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: cyanotyping, recycling art, 3d embroidery with fabric scraps, weaving to mend patches on pants, blanket stitch necklines, furniture painting, bug pinning, idek girl im in the same boat
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make a mint case mini makeup case
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: Buy a junk / craft lot of broken jewelry off eBay. So fun to go through & repairing these jewelry and bringing it back to life is very rewarding 🖤
Best for: Upcycled, repurposed & tin-can crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
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Aluminum can moving mosaics
I watched a video of this guy who makes luxury car beds from old TV’s, radios etc. so fun!
there's a guy on here that folds aluminum cans into different shapes, they look really neat. give one of those a try!
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32 indexed entries draw on 51 distinct source records. Upcycling has the broadest support in this group (12 source records).
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Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment craftsCovering a surface in small decorative pieces -- rhinestones, sequins, beads, or mosaic tesserae.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
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Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: I’m making wall hanging banners with beading and embroidery
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: Idk about niche but I collected sea shells then turned them into magnets for my fridge. Bedazzled everything. Color me mine weekly. Junk journal.
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
What readers reported: Bedazzled lighters for people worth her name on them! Themes can vary depending on the person ( Vegas, flowers etc) .
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: whatever you do... do not make this! THIS IS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER MADE! I almost couldn't bear to finish it.
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: I thrift mirrors, paintings, decor, etc and then just go crazy with a hot glue gun!
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: just get a light bright
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: Micro mosaic, I want to learn so bad 🥺 everything is in latin 😭
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: dollar tree mirror stickers or wherever they are and the pixel patterns.
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
What readers reported: Lippan art & mirror work 🥰
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: ok so i have been doing - bedazzling, painting, painting on vintage suitcases, i go to lowe’s and grab paint swatches and punch holes and hot glue them onto paintings to make a cute design, embroidery, sew buttons onto a old purse into designs, braided bracelets, beaded purses andddd that’s all i can think of lol
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: I draw things and cover them in rhinestones. Here’s my Medusa.
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: sand/rice art, miniature watercolor paintings, super realistic miniatures (1:6) or smaller, I use to make nature scenes/trees out of sticks/dirt/dried plants and rocks.
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: Sequins art is my hyperfixation rm
Best for: Bedazzling, mosaic & embellishment crafts
Why readers recommended it: Idk what it’s called but nails in a board and string wrapped around the nails to create an image. A girl local to me used to sell them
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I draw things and cover them in rhinestones. Here’s my Medusa.
I just feel like you can ALWAYS circle back to rhinestone art
Those nail and string pieces that form a picture
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19 indexed entries draw on 67 distinct source records. Bedazzling has the broadest support in this group (26 source records).
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Resin, epoxy & crystal craftsCasting objects in resin or epoxy, and growing or preserving crystals.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
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Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: melting 3d filament into molds. NOT in resin. just putting the3d poop in a mold and melting it with a heat gun
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: Crystal making kits are interesting! Then I recently got a candle making kit and that was fun
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: Crystallizing books and other random items
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: This is the most random thing I have seen today but also the best thing I have seen today. I have the urge to bedazzle wieners and randomly send them to people.
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: I’m a crafter are you sure you’ve done it all? I spiral bound a golden book junk journal last week. My to do list is * trying resin art but with like cement or mortar * Making sticky notes * Glue book binding *making an miniature art gallery in a shadow box *making funny valentines cards *jewelry making with broken jewelry
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: UV resin is what I use! Made this rosary with real dried flowers from my client's bouquets.
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: Resin floral preservation ! Ive done just about every craft too and this one is very hard.
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: Resin random foods to preserve them forever
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: 2 ideas… pencil chair using resin
Best for: Resin, epoxy & crystal crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
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I epoxy hotdogs and bedazzle them
Resin floral preservation ! Ive done just about every craft too and this one is very hard.
Have you made a leash for your Roku remote? Have you made a pouch for your vape? Resin, paper making or a clay glasses holder?
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12 indexed entries draw on 27 distinct source records. Resin art has the broadest support in this group (10 source records).
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Nail, body & temporary tattoo artDecorating nails, skin, and small personal surfaces with color and design.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
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Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
Why readers recommended it: Taxidermy, needle felting pet hair, acrylic nails
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
Why readers recommended it: Fake bakes! My mom makes them and they’re soooo cool
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
Why readers recommended it: do your nails, I did the paint on top of water to paper. idk what its called but then I started doing it with nail polish!
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
Why readers recommended it: Tattoo a rhode phone case 🤪
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
Why readers recommended it: Wood burning/hat burning, pine needle basket weaving, crochet bead jewelry, bedazzling, press on nail art
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
Why readers recommended it: My list for the next 3 months: stained glass (specifically photo booth frames), brass set of press on nails, gel print poster for local band
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
What readers reported: i got a tattoo gun and a bunch of fake skins and i’ve been practicing for a few years and started tattooing myself and friends and it’s so fun and so worth the practice! also a fun party trick nobody expects!😋
Best for: Nail, body & temporary tattoo art
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Fake bakes! My mom makes them and they’re soooo cool
one time I ran out of stuff to try, so thought I should try tattooing as a diff medium and somehow now I own a tattoo shop 😄
I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but you could try cake decorating/treat making or doing press on nails!
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8 indexed entries draw on 19 distinct source records. Tattooing has the broadest support in this group (10 source records).
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Egg decorating & specialty ornamentationDecorating eggs and small ornamental objects with paint, wax, or dye.
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Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: Easter egg tree full of pop culture references? My first pinned video. 1,500 real eggs.
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: real egg ornament
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: Eggshell ornaments!
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: Faberge eggs and paper quilling
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: My great grandma decorated ostrich eggs. She would basically make little worlds inside of them or rooms one looks like a thrift store inside of it
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: Panoramic eggs! I'm trying my hand at them this year.
Best for: Egg decorating & specialty ornamentation
Why readers recommended it: Pysanky eggs! My mom used to make them and I always wanted to try.
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Pysanky. Several great artists on TikTok
I never knew what this was called! I have a couple Christmas ornaments I got in Prague that are these little eggs. So delicate and special.
Ukrainian eggs was super fun! Loved the dipping and reveal
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8 indexed entries draw on 29 distinct source records. Ukrainian egg decorating has the broadest support in this group (21 source records).
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Performance, collecting and other hobbiesPerformance, collecting and other hobbies — 77 items
Craft-adjacent skill hobbiesHands-on technical and creative skills that don't fit the other buckets.
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Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Find random photos of people, put them in elaborate frames, sign them with a random name, donate them to goodwill, go into goodwill, freak out/fangirl when you see one, buy it, then sell it on eBay with the markup of an imagined celebrity
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Piercing
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I make tiny things out of porcelain and silver clay. Not that niche I guess. My brother in law restores super old cameras and does all sorts of creative shooting/exposing techniques
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Learning to fix my car 😂 Rotors, breaks, spark plugs, etc! 🥰🥰
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Try dogsports. You have to win to get someone else’s arts n crafts project ribbon
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Build your family tree
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Chinese characters are fun to learn
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Fixing your own stuff is the best feeling.
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Don't know if this counts but; making prosthetics for your face? You can make your own Elfears out of latex etc.. It's pretty cool OO
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Strobe light Jenga on mushrooms
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass making, book end painting, Chinese embroidery, hat making, shoe making, perfume making, soap making, bath bombs, ribbon flowers, paper beads, origami, plushy making, tarot cards (not a crafty hobby but very interesting) :3
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Make an ugly stick ! Google Newfoundland ugly stick
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Warhammer 40K. Trust me bb.
Best for: Craft-adjacent skill hobbies
Why readers recommended it: have you tried witchcraft ✨
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Don't know if this counts but; making prosthetics for your face? You can make your own Elfears out of latex etc.. It's pretty cool OO
Learning to fix my car 😂 Rotors, breaks, spark plugs, etc! 🥰🥰
Try dogsports. You have to win to get someone else’s arts n crafts project ribbon
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18 indexed entries draw on 23 distinct source records. Witchcraft has the broadest support in this group (5 source records).
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Performance & movement artsPhysical performance skills -- circus arts, dance, and object manipulation.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Performance & movement arts
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Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: I’m wanting to try some Aerial arts! Like yoga on silks :)
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: Not really craft but more arts. Aerial Lyra hoop. It is so fun flying.
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: balloon animal artistry
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: cosplay. but like, the insane levels of cosplay where they build and sew every little thing themselves.
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: cosplay helmet wigs
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: hi. I accidentally became a fire dancer. and I make my own equipment. I feel like art you set on fire is pretty niche
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: Flowstar for sure!
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: I mean… can you juggle? Also I personally want to self teach myself drawing caricatures, side gig/quest ya know
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: Poi 😂
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: Start roller skating! I’m obsessed after buying my first pair last week.
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: Go to the John c campbell folk school in north carolina. Learn blacksmithing, they have so many cool things. Square dancing, folk story telling, stained glass, soap making, you name it. It’s wonderful
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: Go to the John c campbell folk school in north carolina. Learn blacksmithing, they have so many cool things. Square dancing, folk story telling, stained glass, soap making, you name it. It’s wonderful
Best for: Performance & movement arts
Why readers recommended it: I suggest ventriloquism... or if that's creepy to you, the foam clay is fun
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Flowstar for sure!
cosplay helmet wigs
Not really craft but more arts. Aerial Lyra hoop. It is so fun flying.
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16 indexed entries draw on 31 distinct source records. Cosplay has the broadest support in this group (9 source records).
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Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbiesSolving, building, and playing games and puzzles.
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Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: have you tried cloisonne kits? they are fun! also, 3d metal art puzzles
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Have you done stained glass, linocut, printmaking, wood carving, amigurumi, pottery, 3D puzzles… trying to remember all the pens I’ve done this year 😂 obviously all the painting mediums and drawing
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Have you made a board game?
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: You should get into cozy games. Stardew valley. Farm away girl
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Making crosswords. Woodwork. Zines. Design underwear. Street photography. Pen pals/letter writing.
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Sounds like it’s time for a good ol puzzle. Barnes n noble has some solid ones. Puzzles always fill in the gaps
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Learn American Mahjong 🀄️
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Latch hook kits, diamond painting, surprisingly puzzles feel very artsy 😅
Best for: Puzzles, games & tabletop hobbies
Why readers recommended it: have you tried the red wooden puzzles
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Have you made a board game?
have you tried cloisonne kits? they are fun! also, 3d metal art puzzles
Learn American Mahjong 🀄️
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13 indexed entries draw on 15 distinct source records. Jigsaw puzzles has the broadest support in this group (2 source records).
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Music & instrument playingPlaying, building, and producing music.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Music & instrument playing
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Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Appalachian Dulcimer 🥰
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: learn the banjo🤔
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Make beats
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Craft your own dulcimer and learn to play
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Playing the ocarina. Or urban archaeology. I’ve personally always wanted to play the hammered dulcimer.
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: time to start making music lol
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Let’s make a song in the studio. Any genre you want, not niche but I bet you haven’t tried that type of art before. Lmk
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Playing the ocarina. Or urban archaeology. I’ve personally always wanted to play the hammered dulcimer.
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: that was my covid boredom breaker. bought a $$$ keyboard i can now pmay Happy Birthday 🤣
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Not exactly niche but if you haven’t, you could try to move on to learning a new instrument!! Obv not quite the same, but piano and guitar have so may tutorials and are so fun and beautiful! Plus time consuming to learn!
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Kintsugi!! - take existing stuff you have and break it and then fix it with gold. or you could be a songwriter like me and be a starving artist! also niche.
Best for: Music & instrument playing
Why readers recommended it: Please learn to play the Theramin 😩😩
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We’d love to help you learn the piano :)
time to start making music lol
Let’s make a song in the studio. Any genre you want, not niche but I bet you haven’t tried that type of art before. Lmk
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12 indexed entries draw on 13 distinct source records. Piano playing has the broadest support in this group (3 source records).
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Collecting & correspondence hobbiesGathering objects and keeping up long-distance pen-and-paper connections.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
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Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I collect art supplies. 😑 (Rarely use them, so ✨collecting✨ is my actual hobby. Someone on this app once said this and I felt SEEN. 🤝)
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I like to collect bones and then study them because I I'm really bad in anatomy and they're pretty cool decor
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Happy mail swaps, paper crafting, 3D paper crafting, die cut paper piecing
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Making crosswords. Woodwork. Zines. Design underwear. Street photography. Pen pals/letter writing.
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Making a junk journal from scratch! I teach and make them myself. If that isn’t enough try making doll house furniture? Or my favorite hobby is called Letterboxing.
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Pen pals and paper crafts? Find the right pen pal and y’all trade supplies while also sending them beautiful art!
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Postcrossing! it's super fun and rewarding AND you get to decorate postcards and write a little messages about anything you'd like :D
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Idk about niche but I collected sea shells then turned them into magnets for my fridge. Bedazzled everything. Color me mine weekly. Junk journal.
Best for: Collecting & correspondence hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Some people collect the patterns for security envelopes. There’s also something like geocaching that is all paper-based
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Idk about niche but I collected sea shells then turned them into magnets for my fridge. Bedazzled everything. Color me mine weekly. Junk journal.
Irish lace, bobbin lace, bone collecting
Pen pals and paper crafts? Find the right pen pal and y’all trade supplies while also sending them beautiful art!
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10 indexed entries draw on 18 distinct source records. Penpalling has the broadest support in this group (4 source records).
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Outdoor & exploration hobbiesHobbies built around exploring places, above ground and below.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
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Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Free diving is pretty niche
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Not arts and crafts but you can geocaching!! And you could create a cache with arts and crafts!
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: HAM radio license
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I tried my hand in lock picking and decided to make my own lock picks with a Dremel. Super fun.
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I tried my hand in lock picking and decided to make my own lock picks with a Dremel. Super fun.
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Some people collect the patterns for security envelopes. There’s also something like geocaching that is all paper-based
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 1) Go spelunking and make wands out of your findings. 2) Go to a river, find geodes, break them open with a hammer 3) Make your own clothes fr 4) bedazzle and design a full set of nails… you havent done everything
Best for: Outdoor & exploration hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Playing the ocarina. Or urban archaeology. I’ve personally always wanted to play the hammered dulcimer.
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Not arts and crafts but you can geocaching!! And you could create a cache with arts and crafts!
Some people collect the patterns for security envelopes. There’s also something like geocaching that is all paper-based
Playing the ocarina. Or urban archaeology. I’ve personally always wanted to play the hammered dulcimer.
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8 indexed entries draw on 8 distinct source records. Geocaching has the broadest support in this group (2 source records).
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Jewelry, bead and metalworkJewelry, bead and metalwork — 196 items
Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materialsMaking jewelry from polymer clay, resin, felt, and salvaged or found materials.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
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Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: 3d pen jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
What readers reported: I've been drawing mandalas, making knotted hemp plant hangers, and supplies to make Afghan kuchi necklaces like this one are on the way. Love the inspiration in the comments!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Bandanna necklaces are next on my list!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: The crossover between arts and crafts and woodworking is pretty great.. bentwood rings, dremel wood carving, combine with types of inlays and resins?
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been making bologna ties out of costume jewelry, scarves, rings, vintage beads, hardware, all kinds of buts and baubs. So fun to make and to wear!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: what about the 1 where you take animal bones and make jewelery from them?
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I make jewelry out of recycled Bottlecaps.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: bracelets from wire like making every look and all of it (will fuk up nails)
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: ok so i have been doing - bedazzling, painting, painting on vintage suitcases, i go to lowe’s and grab paint swatches and punch holes and hot glue them onto paintings to make a cute design, embroidery, sew buttons onto a old purse into designs, braided bracelets, beaded purses andddd that’s all i can think of lol
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Try making your own braided hemp necklaces or arm knitting
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Breastmilk jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Brooches??
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
What readers reported: I love button bracelets
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been making keychains and purse chains with crystal cabochons
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: My gf sent me a cool video of a gal making pins with cans. Cutting out shapes and then using tools to stamp and create designs. Another woman made little boxes with the metal and then added clay faces. I was thinking to make a chain belt with dangly ornaments hanging off. Like a giant charm necklace but a belt.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: My gf sent me a cool video of a gal making pins with cans. Cutting out shapes and then using tools to stamp and create designs. Another woman made little boxes with the metal and then added clay faces. I was thinking to make a chain belt with dangly ornaments hanging off. Like a giant charm necklace but a belt.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Same but I recently discovered Chinese ladder/staircase bracelets. I use Brazilian waxed cord. Fun!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I make clay earrings !
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Crystal dog collars
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: collect healing stones and crystals and make jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Make door hinge charms lol
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Cobbling, micro crochet, book binding, book edge painting, making door hinge toppers (3d print or sculpt), & earring jackets (Liz fox Roseberry has tutorials)
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: it's a silly one but I just made a tutorial on my page for Felt Heart Locket Necklaces. I have other fun things on there too!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: [account] making one off jewellery with fossils...
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Prob not niche but I wire wrap fossils
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: My biggest arts and craft project . . real Moldavite Nose studs .. lol i make them with all gemstones now
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: OK, this is the second time just in the last hour and a half that I have referred to hair jewelry. A guy posted an antique from Germany, and it was a ring made of hair with rubies in it as a death ceremony celebration.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Mourning jewelry hair weaving
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: hair rings
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: hemp jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Buy a junk / craft lot of broken jewelry off eBay. So fun to go through & repairing these jewelry and bringing it back to life is very rewarding 🖤
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Make lakh bangles
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Macrame jewellery
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Victoria hair braiding / memorial jewelry!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
What readers reported: Silver clay! I just started using it it’s expensive af but worth it and super cool
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Mokume Gane jewelry with translucent polymer clay and metallic foil sheets. It’s unreal.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I actually use to make necklaces, sold them in a local boutique until it shut down. I had so many necklaces & gave them away to friends.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Make Pinecone pendants with resin
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I make polymer clay earrings
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Turn pop tabs into a necklace
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: needle felting or caribou hair tufting with beadwork accents. porcupine quill earrings.beaded flowers from early 1900s
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals), basket weaving (but ethically forage or grow your own material), spinning fiber into yarn and weaving cloth, natural dying, cyanotyping,…
What readers reported: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals),…
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I press flowers into buttons!!!
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been making keychains and purse chains with crystal cabochons
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
What readers reported: I saw this girl making snowflake jewelry somehow with real snowflakes. I don’t know how it’s done but it is a sorcery I would love to learn! Somehow she captured the real snowflake almost like a dragon fly in amber.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Reproduction granulated medieval slavik jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Jewelry art. I make custom dog and cat portraits out of repurposed jewelry.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Making jewelry by metal plating resin 3d prints. is something I want to do, I just don't have the stuff to do metal plating
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I’ve made mini nature scene necklaces by putting tiny plants into acorns and putting resin over it lol
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: [account] Phinney collecting 4 leaf clovers and turning them into resin keychains
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Wax casting rings. You make literally any design in wax and cast it to metal. There’s little workshops you can take to make ur first one! This blue one is just the wax. I’ll attach a pic of the final ring below :)
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: if we’re talking ultra niche I make roach clips and wood burn. so much fun! 😻
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Scrimshaw jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Shell Trinkets for jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Shoe charms
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried making shrinky dink earrings of viruses and vaccines?
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I just discovered silver clay jewelry and I want to try it so bad
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I made slap bracelets
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: I make earrings out of coke cans.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Spoon jewelry
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: have you made spoon rings yet? simple process & vintage thrifting 🙂↕️
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Resetting stones…
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Idk how niche but wire wrapping stone!!! So funn
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Loom beading, making sylyankas and drabynkas. Kumihimo. 🖤
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Ik for a fact that you haven’t done this one … get a rock and make a tree on it with metal wire and beads.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Jewelry from broken china. I found chipped plates that matched my mom’s wedding china and made a necklace and earrings.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: Earrings from vintage tins.
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Best for: Jewelry-making from clay, fiber & found materials
Why readers recommended it: kintsugi. making bowl and ice cream pint cozies. making wine glass charms
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Jewelry art. I make custom dog and cat portraits out of repurposed jewelry.
I've wanted to try silver clay for soooo loooonng 😩
Mokume Gane jewelry with translucent polymer clay and metallic foil sheets. It’s unreal.
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Beadwork & beaded jewelryStringing, weaving, or stitching beads into jewelry and small objects.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
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Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: 3d seed bead crafts!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: bead mosaic... trust
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Bead weaving!!!! It’s my favorite art I’ve ever done, started a business with it!!!💚🩵💚🩵
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I always see the beaded animals and flowers but never the 3d Christmas ornaments. Super time consuming but so pretty and a good gift.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Beaded animals/insects is another cool one, the butterflies are insane
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried making beaded brooches
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Beaded bugs and flowers! Not super niche but there’s so many different kinds you can make.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I'm actually heading to Michael's right now because I saw somebody making crochet necklaces with beads. lol new hobby unlocked
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Maybe I’m late to this but I recently discovered those beautiful beaded flower arrangements!!! I’m obsessed
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: beaded flower bouquet , beaded key chains !!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: needle felting or caribou hair tufting with beadwork accents. porcupine quill earrings.beaded flowers from early 1900s
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I kinda just winged it! lol I saw these posted in a bead group I follow. I wish I took pics of the process. If you search beaded hermit crab, you should be able to find something more helpful than I am 😭
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: beaded flower bouquet , beaded key chains !!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Remember those tiny beaded lizard keychains we used to make when we were kids? Make one of those, but gigantic - like 6 feet long. I saw a creator make one on here and it was epic.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Off loom bead weaving. So many styles! Beaded micro macrame.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I also made beaded Christmas ornaments of my sister's cats 🤷
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Been seeing beaded hanging plans on my FYP.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Have you seen the potted crystal beaded plants?! Adorbs.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: ok so i have been doing - bedazzling, painting, painting on vintage suitcases, i go to lowe’s and grab paint swatches and punch holes and hot glue them onto paintings to make a cute design, embroidery, sew buttons onto a old purse into designs, braided bracelets, beaded purses andddd that’s all i can think of lol
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: hmmm maybe kumihomo beading or at present I am making beaded spiders
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Beaded suncatchers! Spiderwebs and dream catchers are my favorites to make so far but there are so many cool ones you can do
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: have you tried bead weaving or beaded tapestries?
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Ive beaded domestic cat and Bobcat skulls with really small beads and uv resin
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been beading these butterfly hair clips. Tutorial on youtube and it makes such a cute hair accessory
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Indigenous arts! Quill art, beadwork, copper bar fabric dying.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I want to try this chicken wire bead thingy. I think they're so pretty.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Make your own clay bead jewelry
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Wood burning/hat burning, pine needle basket weaving, crochet bead jewelry, bedazzling, press on nail art
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I dont think ive seen this commented but making beads for a necklace out of dead flowers🥀
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Beads made from rose petals and/or other flowers
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
What readers reported: Make French beaded flowers it’s pretty time consuming but so worth trying!!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: fuse/iron beads or beaded curtains!!!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: glass bead lamp shades!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Yes, I’ve bought some pieces from artists in Mexico and they’re amazing and it definitely inspired me to do some at home and it’s okay if people take inspiration from other cultures that they find beautiful 🫶
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried indigenous beadwork?
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Make a bunch of Kandy and then go trade them at a rave.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Loom beading, making sylyankas and drabynkas. Kumihimo. 🖤
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: I saw a video of a girl gluing micro beads all over a floral print phone case and it turned out super cute! Looked like a beaded phone case at the end
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
What readers reported: Native American beading, flat work
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Off loom bead weaving. So many styles! Beaded micro macrame.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass making, book end painting, Chinese embroidery, hat making, shoe making, perfume making, soap making, bath bombs, ribbon flowers, paper beads, origami, plushy making, tarot cards (not a crafty hobby but very interesting) :3
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Perler bead earrings are so fun to make n wear!
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Peyote stitch beaded 3D stars.
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: pony bead blanket
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: mosaic crochet, metal clay jewelry, soft soldered jewelry, clay lighter cases, window "stained glass" clings, needle felting, rug tufting, shrinky dinks, tatting, fillet crochet, spinning, pony bead and perler bead stuff ✨
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: rainbow loom
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Rose beads, I’m literally obsessed 😍
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Make clay out of rose petals then turn the clay into beads
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Best for: Beadwork & beaded jewelry
Why readers recommended it: Have u tried making dragons out of seed beads and wire
Source-record spotlights
Make French beaded flowers it’s pretty time consuming but so worth trying!!
I always see the beaded animals and flowers but never the 3d Christmas ornaments. Super time consuming but so pretty and a good gift.
Maybe I’m late to this but I recently discovered those beautiful beaded flower arrangements!!! I’m obsessed
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55 indexed entries draw on 137 distinct source records. French beaded flower making has the broadest support in this group (24 source records).
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Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engravingWorking metal by hand or torch -- forging, casting, welding, and engraving.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
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Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Blacksmithing. I have been doing it for a couple years and it’s so fun. I make little heart keychains and hairpins
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: i really fuck with braising and its not super expensive. u can make a lot and its pretty easy. i made this lantern a while back but the possibilities are limitless!!
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Try Chainmail ☺️you can make your own jewelry with it and it lasts forever when you make it out of stainless steel
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Chainmail! Honestly one of the most rewarding and therapeutic crafts I’ve tried 🤗 (I’m a beginner and it took me less than a day to make this headpiece hehe)
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: silversmithing, hair jewelry, taxidermy, basket weaving, enamel, stained glass,
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: have you tried printmaking? like copper etching and all of it? it was an u expected one i loved!
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Copper planting 3d resin prints you design yourself. 😉
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Copper relief sculptures
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Loom beading, making sylyankas and drabynkas. Kumihimo. 🖤
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: its from Slovakia not a lot of people can do it its called drotárstvo and basicly you make things from wire
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I do electroforming check out my other page to see [account] Apple Labs 🇨🇦
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Is one I still haven’t gotten to yet
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Get an engraver pen and personalise lighters, jewellery mirror
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: just saw flame painting copper! whaaaat? look at this flamingo!!!! [link removed]
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: gemstone faceting. rug tufting. marble sculpture. whittling. yarn making. mirrored embroidery and tambour beading
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I loooove hojalata, it’s a Mexican tin embossing tradition that is so beautiful and accessible! You can buy tooling aluminum rolls or make it out of aluminum cans or disposable aluminum pans.
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
What readers reported: Combined rockhounding, lapidary and jewelry making. You literally dig your own stones from the Earth, polish them and turn them into jewelry. It’s got outside work and inside work.
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Wax casting rings. You make literally any design in wax and cast it to metal. There’s little workshops you can take to make ur first one! This blue one is just the wax. I’ll attach a pic of the final ring below :)
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: OMG. I totally forgot that I used to do that many many years ago! 💕
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I make these steel fish with a cutting wheel
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Repujados are fun and challenging
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Get an engraving pen/practice metal from Michael’s and then start making fun engraved lighters/jewelry/leychains
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I make flowers out of metal. this is one of them
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
What readers reported: Not niche but you should get into metal work and make the freakiest jewelry. It’s like ceramics but the style element matters even more so I think you would make some awesome stuff
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Crafts I also want to try: tatting, bobbin lace, junk journaling, card making, needlepoint, book binding, leather working, whittling, kintsugi, visible mending (boro, sashiko), basketweaving, metal origami…could probably think of more too 😅
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Metal stamping for a win!
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Here is another from 15 years ago. It also has metal tooling, which is very fun. My baby picture and birth certificate is inside.
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I do bead embroidery, doll customizing, cyanotype, wet specimens, bug pinning, jewelry making and I’m getting into metal smithing, paper mache sculpture/mask making, and wet felting hats!
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Paper making (gather the plants and cook an process the pulp and then do sheet formation). Wet felting. Needle felting. Tatting. Sewn tie dye. Mold making and casting. Metalwork (jewelry scale). Glass tile mosaics. Doll repaints.
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: MiG welding!! Easy enough to learn & a great skill to know
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: making chainmail out of poptabs?
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I took a silversmithing course at my local technical college. ✨
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: mosaic crochet, metal clay jewelry, soft soldered jewelry, clay lighter cases, window "stained glass" clings, needle felting, rug tufting, shrinky dinks, tatting, fillet crochet, spinning, pony bead and perler bead stuff ✨
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: I make these steel fish with a cutting wheel
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Stainless steel tig welding
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Whittling, tin embossing, cyanotype, felting
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Tin ornament casting like [account] Brilliant Ornaments it’s a dying art that is really neat and should be revived!
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Metalsmithing, casting, welding & engraving
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
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My current fixation is metal embossing matchboxes
Lapidary if you want a more spendy crafty hobby!
Go to the John c campbell folk school in north carolina. Learn blacksmithing, they have so many cool things. Square dancing, folk story telling, stained glass, soap making, you name it. It’s wonderful
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53 indexed entries draw on 198 distinct source records. Chainmail making has the broadest support in this group (60 source records).
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Wire jewelry & wireworkBending and shaping wire into jewelry and decorative forms.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Wire jewelry & wirework
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Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Wire wrap bones
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: im doing chicken wire art and its fun! and the end is so pretty and sparkly no matter what colors you do
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Dipped wire flowers
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: find fossils in a creek in the woods and make rings from them using wire
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass ? Glass bead making ? Knitting or crochet silver wire jewelry
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass ? Glass bead making ? Knitting or crochet silver wire jewelry
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Have you seen the wire nail polish flowers? That will be the next addition to my adhd craft cemetery 😅
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: wire bending? sculpture or jewelry pieces with it...
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Wire bonsai tree 😁
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: bracelets from wire like making every look and all of it (will fuk up nails)
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: Air dry pots and plants made out of craft wire and beads. We did this at my daughter’s co-op last week!
Best for: Wire jewelry & wirework
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
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Wire wrapped crystal trees!
Wire wrapping :) one of my favs rn
I used to make wire wrapped gemstone rings! Was able to sell them and everything
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12 indexed entries draw on 42 distinct source records. Wire wrapping has the broadest support in this group (27 source records).
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EnamelingFusing powdered glass onto metal with heat for color and shine.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Enameling
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Best for: Enameling
What readers reported: Ooooh, I love this! I have a cloisonné ring that has lost some enamel. I thought it was a lost cause. I’m gonna look into this! Any suggestions for a beginner who just wants to try a small project before jumping all the way in?
Limit: That is a gorgeous ring! I unfortunately know nothing about how to repair it 😅 but you could get yourself a little kit to practice with, and then use the left over materials on your ring 🤷🏽♀️my kit had lots of material left over
Best for: Enameling
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Enameling
What readers reported: Here’s my list of things I have an embarrassing amount of money invested in. Some I liked, some not as much: Rug Hooking, glass lamp work ( have the whole set up),silver enameling ( have a ton of money it- haven’t tried it yet🙄), silver clay,…
Best for: Enameling
Why readers recommended it: Vitreous enameling is incredibly under rated!!
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That is a gorgeous ring! I unfortunately know nothing about how to repair it 😅 but you could get yourself a little kit to practice with, and then use the left over materials on your ring 🤷🏽♀️my kit had lots of material left over
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I bought a Cloisonné kit and it was so much fun!
The kits make it so fun and easy! Loved every step 😁
im gonna try this!
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4 indexed entries draw on 20 distinct source records. Cloisonné has the broadest support in this group (17 source records).
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Painting, drawing and printmakingPainting, drawing and printmaking — 187 items
Painting (traditional & experimental media)Applying paint to a surface with brush, pour, or spray, across every medium and material.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
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Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Magic pour. Comes out like pottery and it sets up SUPER fast so it is very satisfying. I made some bowls and put candles in them for Xmas.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: airbrush
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Bead weaving, alcohol inks, glass painting
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Alcohol inks on glass is pretty cool
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Alcohol inks on vellum paper!
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: currently I'm into book nooks, painting my own alphablocks for my grandbaby, and want to do basket weaving,because why not?
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: lol I paint the top of my dryer and washer
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I’m a banner artist and I really like it bc you don’t pick the themes and it’s always a challenge. Once you find your style it’s even more fun.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I make barn quilts & carve in stone with a Dremel…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I bleach paint! Slightly niche. More niche things I really want to do: paint my own tarot deck, make a custom book cover, diy faux stained glass
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: borders for tvs, mirrors, frames. Mermaid/fairy vibes. Or painting your body then putting it on canvas is a lot of fun too
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I do and sell hand painted book edges. It can get really niche depending on the process.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I do chalk art 😂
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Idk if it’s niche. BUT, painted clay lighter covers look cool as hell. Also if there’s an expensive kind of china/tableware you like you could copy it
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Idk this isn’t really niche I guess but I spend hours cutting up magazines and mail to make collages that look like paintings
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Apparently etchings are super dangerous bc it involves acid so very niche bc of it but absolutely stunning outcomes
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Learn face painting! It’s fun! Loved it so much that started doing it professionally.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: tumblr fanart 😭
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I paint turkey feathers :)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: FINGERPAINTING!!!👐👐👐🎨🎨🎨🫶🫶🫶🤘🤘🤘🤘
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Set alcohol inks on fire on glass. Its awesome
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: FLOW ART! You use more water based acrylic paint and layer it on a canvas and use a blow dryer with a flat attachment or a straw and blow the paint on the canvas and it is GORGEOUS
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Folk art painted nail head botanical
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: cyanotyping, recycling art, 3d embroidery with fabric scraps, weaving to mend patches on pants, blanket stitch necklines, furniture painting, bug pinning, idek girl im in the same boat
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: try gilding
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Painting on glass is super fun. Like a picture frame, paint the glass to look like a picture
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Guosh 💕
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: illegal graffiti
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
What readers reported: cyanotyping, perfume making (specifically enfleurage), stained glass making, etching glass, wood carving, lace tatting, rug tufting, Victorian hair work jewelry, graphite watercolors, paper quilling, French beaded flowers, weaving straw hats,…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: paint on hair
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: hand drawn velium cards. my mom did these in the 80s with color pencils and pens. I'll post pics
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I have a friend who is an amazing henna artist. She took those skills and used a wood burning tool to do incredible henna design leather boots and bags.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: hydro dip paint , Im pretty sure thats what its called
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Me too. I am gonna try the painting lace. There’s a guy on here who does that. It’s so cool. He secures lace on a canvas and then paints the lace’s designs.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I have been painting my lampshades
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Epoxy, mandala stones, jewelry making, glass blowing
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: painting with melted crayons in a hot glue gun...
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: sand/rice art, miniature watercolor paintings, super realistic miniatures (1:6) or smaller, I use to make nature scenes/trees out of sticks/dirt/dried plants and rocks.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Moonshine alcohol painting! Only saw it in NC
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Paint a mural
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: My friend on fb does these beautiful paint oil drop paintings, so beautiful!
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Photorealistic oil painting
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: My latest post literally has all the hobbies I tried this year 😜 but have you tried candle making, paint by the numbers, embroidery, heat pressing mugs or clothes?
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Not niche, per se but I have really enjoy doing paint by number paintings with glitter pens.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Shuttle tatting? Miniature rug weaving? Lace making? Natural dye making? Paint milling? Stained glass? Pine needle basket weaving? How niche are we talking here?
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: painting on clothes, bags, shoes and jewelry :D
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: painting on clothes, bags, shoes and jewelry :D
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Painting on RICE like one single grain have you done that
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: ok so i have been doing - bedazzling, painting, painting on vintage suitcases, i go to lowe’s and grab paint swatches and punch holes and hot glue them onto paintings to make a cute design, embroidery, sew buttons onto a old purse into designs, braided bracelets, beaded purses andddd that’s all i can think of lol
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: you can make portraits with scrap fabric. paint plant holders with funny but possibly inappropriate words. needle lace making.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: have you tried painting with a cat whisker? it's lowkey, hella satisfying.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I painted a blank wooden frame
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: learning to pinstripe
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I went to Google Maps and found my childhood house, printed a picture, traced it on tissue paper and then traced the tissue paper with sharpie and went over the sharpie tracing with a paint pen! I have a video on my page 🥰
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: bobbin lace making, porcelain painting
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Puff paint!
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Reborn doll I painted in vinyl (some are painting full body silicone)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: My adhd hobby is learning new crafts and I’m 39 so LOL I got you girl: reverse guilding/sign painting, diy letterpress using custom ordered plates and a Sizzix machine, screen printing using vinyl and screen stretched in embroidery hoops, candles, make vanilla extract and flavored bourbons to give at Christmas next year, wire wrapping, batik,
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I just paint rocks and hide them around town. real big in 2020 and died down. not me tho 🤷🏼♀️
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Not looking through the comments, but how about rosemaling?
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I recently made a mosaic out of 100 rubiks cubes
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Paint scenes inside shells
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: My adhd hobby is learning new crafts and I’m 39 so LOL I got you girl: reverse guilding/sign painting, diy letterpress using custom ordered plates and a Sizzix machine, screen printing using vinyl and screen stretched in embroidery hoops, candles, make vanilla extract and flavored bourbons to give at Christmas next year, wire wrapping, batik,
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I just saw silk painting the other day! Looks intricate
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Idk if it’s niche. BUT, painted clay lighter covers look cool as hell. Also if there’s an expensive kind of china/tableware you like you could copy it
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: I bleach paint! Slightly niche. More niche things I really want to do: paint my own tarot deck, make a custom book cover, diy faux stained glass
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Get a tattoo gun and fake skin
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Textured acrylic paint I want to do this so much. [account] she uses a thick gel medium mixed with acrylic pant and paints with a Palette 🔪
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: maybe you've already done this, but have you tried painting with texture? like mixing acrylic paint with a medium to make it thicker? you can put it in piping bags or just use a palette knife.
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
What readers reported: Repaint (update) old framed art work from the thrift store
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: Rn I’m junk journaling and trash water coloring a diy recipe book, so I have to hunt down recipes,make them,do art, and caligraphy it
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: This is so cute! What type of paint do you use? I’ve always wanted to try it
Best for: Painting (traditional & experimental media)
Why readers recommended it: yarn paintings. I went to a wellness retreat once and it was the coolest art form ive ever seen. U literally cover a slat of wood with wax and press yarn/ maybe its embroidery idk into it and its remarkable…
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I started painting the windows on my house lol
Encaustic painting
Me too. I am gonna try the painting lace. There’s a guy on here who does that. It’s so cool. He secures lace on a canvas and then paints the lace’s designs.
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89 indexed entries draw on 188 distinct source records. Encaustic painting has the broadest support in this group (23 source records).
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Printmaking & stamp carvingTransferring an inked design from a carved or prepared surface onto paper or fabric.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Printmaking & stamp carving
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Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: acetone print transfers!!! you can use nail polish remover and anything printed from a laser printer. it’s so easy
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Making your own yarn/dying it and then using it in a knit/crochet project, block/relief printing, needle felting, weaving??? Not sure if you’ve crossed any of these off your list but here’s some new ones 😂
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Felting, rug tufting, cyanotype, van dyke, shibori, glass blowing, stained glass, marble carving, copper plate printing, photo transfers (so many varieties of ways to do this), OOOOOO graffiti remover transferring magazines to paper was my FAVORITE thing in Highschool
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: i used to have a wood carving kit and i would use it to make stamps out of erasers! i had a lot of fun with it
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: quilling, monotype printmaking, lithocut print, bookbinding, etching printmaking
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Stamping towels, napkins, clothing with potatoes or dried fruits (lemons, limes etc) —needle felting—-making homemade paper to decorate cards—-paint on a deck of cards for someone—-bedazzle lighters to gift to people
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Make your own jelli plate with gelatin
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Paper quilling, gelli printing, punch needle embroidery?
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: gyotaku! fish printing! go catch or buy a whole fish & paint it with ink or watercolor & stamp it on a nice printmaking paper
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Have you done any glass working? Intaglio or screen printing? Or straw marquetry? None of this is niche but still
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: My adhd hobby is learning new crafts and I’m 39 so LOL I got you girl: reverse guilding/sign painting, diy letterpress using custom ordered plates and a Sizzix machine, screen printing using vinyl and screen stretched in embroidery hoops, candles, make vanilla extract and flavored bourbons to give at Christmas next year, wire wrapping, batik,
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: linocut print making is soooo fun if u like carving stuff
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: quilling, monotype printmaking, lithocut print, bookbinding, etching printmaking
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Lithography. Expensive and difficult but very fun and niche.
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: quilling, monotype printmaking, lithocut print, bookbinding, etching printmaking
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: I use plants from outside to make prints!! It's so fun and you can experiment with different leaves!
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Stamping towels, napkins, clothing with potatoes or dried fruits (lemons, limes etc) —needle felting—-making homemade paper to decorate cards—-paint on a deck of cards for someone—-bedazzle lighters to gift to people
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: have you tried printmaking? like copper etching and all of it? it was an u expected one i loved!
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Relief printing isn’t super niche, but I also know a lot of people haven’t done it!
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Rubber stamp carving, wood carving, cardboard sculpting!
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Rust printing fabric.
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Have you done any glass working? Intaglio or screen printing? Or straw marquetry? None of this is niche but still
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Linoleum stamp carving? So fun and pretty inexpensive if you use little rubber erasers rather than buying a bunch of lino blocks
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Linol cut/stamp making
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Okay queen have you heard of sublimation?? It’s so fun I’ve made my own fabric from doing it 😭 I loveeee ittt
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: sublimation but instead of printing out what you are going to print use the toner ink to make your own prints
Best for: Printmaking & stamp carving
Why readers recommended it: Woodblock printmaking is really fun and artsy! Also, bookmaking, like learning how to make and bind books is fun
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Lithography. Expensive and difficult but very fun and niche.
acetone print transfers!!! you can use nail polish remover and anything printed from a laser printer. it’s so easy
Linocutting is so fun and never hear ppl talk about it. It can be stamps for journaling, clothes, etc
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33 indexed entries draw on 140 distinct source records. Linocut has the broadest support in this group (38 source records).
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Drawing, calligraphy & illustrationMark-making with pencil, pen, or brush -- drawing, lettering, and map-making.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
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Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Do bleach drawing on old clothes!!
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: needle felting? lace weaving? book binding? leather? calligraphy and wax seals? glassblowing? I am racking my brain to think of anything that theres a chance you havent done lol id be kinda shocked if youve never made something with leather
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I mean… can you juggle? Also I personally want to self teach myself drawing caricatures, side gig/quest ya know
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried chalk couture I have been having fun with it!
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I do charcoal drawings
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Monochrome coloring books
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I know this is crazy but get in to dungeons & dragons. Map making, figurine and character making
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: scribble until it becomes something. harder than it sounds!!
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been doing these dot by letter coloring books called Lifelines I highly recommend
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: When I was a teenager, I would come up with my own fonts
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Sumi E or Japanese ink painting. It emphasizes the blank spaces as well as the ink art. It was fun for me. As well as Japanese Calligraphy.
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Can I send you one of my line tracing adult coloring books? There are 10 of my super intricate drawings lightly printed on the page and you can use fine ink pens and trace it and make your own gallery wall! Very meditative too :)
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
What readers reported: I've been drawing mandalas, making knotted hemp plant hangers, and supplies to make Afghan kuchi necklaces like this one are on the way. Love the inspiration in the comments!
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Paper making, book binding, manuscript illumination.
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Try micro calligraphy
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I know most people have colored before, but if you haven't mastered mixed-media coloring, I highly recommend. I'm making a whole coloring book from real photographs I took. I color with alcohol markers, colored pencils, and acrylic pens.
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I make a newspaper about myself every month and tape it to the fridge. journal thoughts, a skill I’m learning (pastels), places visited, things eaten, textural bits (sea glass, dried plants etc). The “newspaper” is a paper bag from a nearby market.…
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: bullet journailing, pointilism & spoon carving
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I like doing scratchboards 😅
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: scribble until it becomes something. harder than it sounds!!
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Silverpoint on gesso panel or encaustic wax painting
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I went through a phase of making spirograph garlands for people in hospice as well. 🤷♀️Huge crowds when I would do this on tiktok lives. It was absurd.
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Come join the stencil world!
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Stippling drawing it will take all your free time to finish
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: I use surf was to draw on my surfboard
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: Manual: Pearl embroidery medieval portraiture -> do a series on historical women to research ✨. or 🎨 fine arts: turkish illumination called Tezhip to upgrade your personal stationary
Best for: Drawing, calligraphy & illustration
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
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Can I send you one of my line tracing adult coloring books? There are 10 of my super intricate drawings lightly printed on the page and you can use fine ink pens and trace it and make your own gallery wall! Very meditative too :)
Paper making, book binding, manuscript illumination.
scribble until it becomes something. harder than it sounds!!
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33 indexed entries draw on 55 distinct source records. Calligraphy has the broadest support in this group (14 source records).
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Ink, marbling & pigment-makingMaking paint, ink, and pigment from scratch, and fluid ink techniques like marbling.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
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Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: I turn old makeup into watercolor paint!
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Have you ever got into making ur own paper? 🤔 U can combine it with so many other pursuits: pressed flowers, paper maché, obviously drawing and painting, junk journaling, scrapbooking, decoupage, making gift boxes, gift wrap, origami, mixed media art, marbling,…
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: making paints out of mud! Also what lip comboooo?
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: My husband makes ink from natural materials!!! Highly recommend!!!
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: ok girl hear me out… making ur own paint out of muds you find in the wild… it’s fun I swear
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Making natural pigments. It takes some research but you can make tones of purple/pink using onion skins (and much more)
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been mixing rock pigments and turning them into oil paints. Super niche and difficult but cool 😎
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Paper making & painting with pigmented paper pulp. Your finished piece is a piece/sheet of paper.
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: turkish paper marbling called Ebru art (or ebru sanatı in turkish) !!! it's insanely pretty
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Recently learnt to extract colour pigments out of literally anything. Flowers, bark, food, rocks. Once extracted you can use to dye things, make acrylic paint oil paints and watercolour paints. Can even sell the powder on its own. Often, the colours that you’d expect to get are different from what you actually get. It’s oddly satisfying!
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Pigment foraging and paint making
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Make pigments exclusively from the minerals of where you live.
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Sumi E or Japanese ink painting. It emphasizes the blank spaces as well as the ink art. It was fun for me. As well as Japanese Calligraphy.
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: Water marbling in istanbul
Best for: Ink, marbling & pigment-making
Why readers recommended it: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals), basket weaving (but ethically forage or grow your own material), spinning fiber into yarn and weaving cloth, natural dying, cyanotyping,…
What readers reported: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals),…
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ok girl hear me out… making ur own paint out of muds you find in the wild… it’s fun I swear
Recently learnt to extract colour pigments out of literally anything. Flowers, bark, food, rocks. Once extracted you can use to dye things, make acrylic paint oil paints and watercolour paints. Can even sell the powder on its own. Often, the colours that you’d expect to get are different from what you actually get. It’s oddly satisfying!
My husband makes ink from natural materials!!! Highly recommend!!!
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17 indexed entries draw on 31 distinct source records. Paper marbling has the broadest support in this group (6 source records).
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Egg decorating & novelty surface artPainting or decorating eggs, playing cards, and other novelty surfaces.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
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Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
What readers reported: Not niche but start making art cards, ACEOS. The possibilities are endless, you can easily sell on eBay for a few bucks, but the community that comes along with art trading is better than anything.
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: batik egg art
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Blood and ink?
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Bob Ross painting
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
What readers reported: chinoiserie painting. I just started and love it.
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Ohhhh or turning those painted eggs into jewelry or music boxes!
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Again but make it look like etch a sketch!
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Textured art or decor. I use joint compound for sheet rock. It’s so satisfying. I’ve done canvas decor, light fixtures, pottery, ect. It’s also beginner friendly 😍
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Don’t have a photo but try making Lithuanian Easter Eggs.
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Stamping towels, napkins, clothing with potatoes or dried fruits (lemons, limes etc) —needle felting—-making homemade paper to decorate cards—-paint on a deck of cards for someone—-bedazzle lighters to gift to people
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Paint pokemon card
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: Period blood painting? Lol
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: paint a surfboard
Best for: Egg decorating & novelty surface art
Why readers recommended it: don't know how it's called but the painting eggs with wax
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painting eggs is very niche
Paint pokemon card
don't know how it's called but the painting eggs with wax
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15 indexed entries draw on 16 distinct source records. Egg painting has the broadest support in this group (2 source records).
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Wood, leather and natural materialsWood, leather and natural materials — 135 items
Woodworking, carving & turningShaping and joining wood by hand or on a lathe -- carving, turning, and building with wood.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Woodworking, carving & turning
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Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Have you strung your own bow? Have you carved your own arrows? Have you mastered your shot?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: should try making bassoon reeds
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Get heavier into the nature crafting. Go find your own sticks and make beads out of the wood, search for bones on hikes, etc
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
What readers reported: Birch bark work (näverhandarbete) so like making baskets and such out of birch bark.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Have you strung your own bow? Have you carved your own arrows? Have you mastered your shot?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Broom making! I teach immersive workshops where you learn how to craft different styles of brooms while learning the folklore & superstitions surrounding brooms from around the world. ✨🧹🖤
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I'm getting into miniatures, like little fairy doll houses and the like. bone carving, basket weaving, wood burning, and carpentry are also on the list 😂
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: You’ve done carving? I’m not saying that’s niche. I also used to make “friendship bracelets” but very intricate like I found a picture of a powerpuff girl and pixelated it on this website to make a pattern. It took me two years or so to finish and I’d work on it at school. I gave it to my so called friend and she immediately lost it.…
What readers reported: You’ve done carving? I’m not saying that’s niche. I also used to make “friendship bracelets” but very intricate like I found a picture of a powerpuff girl and pixelated it on this website to make a pattern.…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Bobbin lace, crochet lace. Decoupage. String art pictures. Welding sculptures. Chainsaw sculptures. Marble sculptures
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: cane some chairs. lost art that my grandma and great grandparents did.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Same. Taking a wood working class next month to make chopsticks. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: make drum mallets or frame drums
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Craft your own dulcimer and learn to play
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Ever make a fish bonker?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: victorian hair jewelry/hair art, flint napping, drop spindling your pet's soft underbelly fur, nalbinding, basket weaving with invasive species (i'm doing this rn!)
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: NICHE’ YES Turning 10,000 volts into art! I transform electricity into stunning custom pieces like guitar bodies, charcuterie boards, and more! 🎸✨ custom projects welcome! I'm located in NY. Got an idea? LETS make something amazing together!
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: make drum mallets or frame drums
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: ive made all my own furniture and renovated my house with mostly a drill skillsaw and sander! my stuff dissambles if we ever more and its going to last FOREVER. also ppl men get emasculated when they know I made it 🥰
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Wood burning/hat burning, pine needle basket weaving, crochet bead jewelry, bedazzling, press on nail art
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Woodworking intarsia 😎
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Hear me out.. Masonry.. time to start carving stone.. after that, it’s Joinery! 👁️these two will bring ALL your crafts together and lend skills to ALL your other skillls! 🔥💕
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I make custom knife handles that cater to the feminine gaze 🥰 Knives marketed to women were pink or purple…but there weren’t pressed flowers in resin. Lavender and gold flake…crystals…glitter. My dad was a knife maker and I took all his unfinished blades but had to add my own flair
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I got a wood laser (XTool) it’s fun
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I got a wood laser (XTool) it’s fun
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Airbrushing. Lichtenberg wood burning.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Live edge furniture
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Have you made your own loom?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Make a lute
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I’m taking a miniature wood turning workshop this summer. Want to make tiny little wooden furniture 💖
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Make brushes from widdling wood in the first and sourcing bristled from animals and plants and anything else that can be a mark making tool.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: My kids and I spent the fall making and painting super basic cat houses for the farm/ feral cats on our acreage. We used pallet wood that we sanded and painted them. It was just silly and creative. We used mostly recycled material and now it serves a purpose! If not cat houses, maybe some bird houses :)
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I make these. I search for the stones and driftwood at the beach. I get the 4x6 or 5x7 shadowed frames at IKEA for $3.00, and use scrapbook paper in the background. I mostly give them to family and friends. Might sell them one day.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Tramp art frames!! They're so pretty and can display other crafts ◡̈
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Did you get served the pine needle ornaments video? That one has me tempted 🤣
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I want to learn pine needle weaving
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Hmm... make paper, make ancient-looking leather bound books, calligraphy, make art with a scroll saw ?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: bleaching seashells? basket weaving? pipe cleaner flowers? macrame?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Sea shell flower making
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Shell bouquet
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Have you done wood burning art using the sun? Super cool to do.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I bought all the stuff to carve wooden spoons. I haven’t actually done it but it looks interesting
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
What readers reported: silk painting, hand sewing, intricate veneer work
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: 1) Go spelunking and make wands out of your findings. 2) Go to a river, find geodes, break them open with a hammer 3) Make your own clothes fr 4) bedazzle and design a full set of nails… you havent done everything
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: gemstone faceting. rug tufting. marble sculpture. whittling. yarn making. mirrored embroidery and tambour beading
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: My mom just told me about willow sculpting. Your welcome
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
What readers reported: Wood resin! like we have so many tree stumps in my yard I just wanna make a chair or something🤣🤣 but also I love messing with like borax and trying to make crystals you can make really cool ones if you use charcoal powder in it like black diamonds, almost
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: pyrography! It's very meditative and it smells like a campfire.
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Is there a certain type of wood you need for carving?? I’ve wanted to try this forever
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: Build a small wooden ferris wheel?
Best for: Woodworking, carving & turning
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
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I make these. I search for the stones and driftwood at the beach. I get the 4x6 or 5x7 shadowed frames at IKEA for $3.00, and use scrapbook paper in the background. I mostly give them to family and friends. Might sell them one day.
Wood burning? Cyberdecks?
Broom making! I teach immersive workshops where you learn how to craft different styles of brooms while learning the folklore & superstitions surrounding brooms from around the world. ✨🧹🖤
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60 indexed entries draw on 181 distinct source records. Wood burning has the broadest support in this group (57 source records).
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Bone, shell & botanical natural-material craftsCarving and assembling objects from bone, shell, seeds, and found botanicals.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
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Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: I totally understand your dilemma. I as well am an extreme crafter lol. I’ve been making acorn people lately, along with a little clay sculpting and 3d printing.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make buttons out of avocado pits
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: make bergamot boxes and fill with soy candles or paint them like the 1800 type!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
What readers reported: Love this. I have a set of antlers attached to driftwood that I found at a market and I wanted to add a staghorn fern to it!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Bone carving? It’s a traditional art but anyone can learn it , and quite soothing.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Get heavier into the nature crafting. Go find your own sticks and make beads out of the wood, search for bones on hikes, etc
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: your mom sent this to me too 😂 how do I explain my top crafts.... decorate clean bones and sew felt into imaginary animals 😅
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Electroforming, bone engraving
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been wrapping deer bones from my brother and making them into purses
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: collect bits of nature to create "paintings" Its a 2 part hobby. you get to wander nature and make art.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Chinese walnuts, need I say more
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: There's a guy on here who is showing us how to make trinket boxes out of an orange. You could do this with any citrus. That's pretty niche.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: I have dried flower frame kits for sale… check it out on my TikTok shop in my profile. Don’t usually advertise it much but it may be up your alley ✨
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: I just watched a video for a woman who the rind of 1/2 a grapefruit and turned it into a box. I’ll see if I can find it to share with you. It was fascinating and I thought that looked really cool. You should definitely try it.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Glass fusing, encaustics, Tunisian crochet, paper quilling, kolrosing (wood carving using Viking techniques)
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Preserving leaves and making garlands/mobiles
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
What readers reported: Mother of pearl inlay. So tedious and cool, worth hundreds once you finish a piece
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: sand/rice art, miniature watercolor paintings, super realistic miniatures (1:6) or smaller, I use to make nature scenes/trees out of sticks/dirt/dried plants and rocks.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: I just made a wind chime out of fish bones and pinecones that I collected in nature
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: collect bits of nature to create "paintings" Its a 2 part hobby. you get to wander nature and make art.
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: I just saw a girl making bergamot trinket boxes out of orange peels!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Primitive stone tools
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Making art books!!! Also, waxwork, weaving, and scrimshaw!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Seed art!! I haven’t tried it but the ones on display at my local state fair were so cool!!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: i loveeee collecting jingle shells and saw ppl make crafts with them!!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: …if you have any beaches nearby, find shells that are flat, shimmery and almost shapeless. They’re not used by animals and the shimmer indicates you can try to make them into pieces that can be used as DIY inlay. I’m going to use it to decorate a makeup compact I’m designing!
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Tramp art frames!! They're so pretty and can display other crafts ◡̈
Best for: Bone, shell & botanical natural-material crafts
Why readers recommended it: Teeth and lips are sculpey clay. I bake the shells with the lips on them and then I glue on each tooth w E6000. The messier you are w glue the better- just looks like spit. I use looks of eyeshadow to give them the dirty look look and then spray them with clear spray paint to seal. There’s no wrong way to do this. I just made it up. Lol Have fun!
What readers reported: Teeth and lips are sculpey clay. I bake the shells with the lips on them and then I glue on each tooth w E6000. The messier you are w glue the better- just looks like spit.…
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I make Venus flytraps out of walnut shells.
I'm getting into miniatures, like little fairy doll houses and the like. bone carving, basket weaving, wood burning, and carpentry are also on the list 😂
Mother of pearl inlay. So tedious and cool, worth hundreds once you finish a piece
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29 indexed entries draw on 55 distinct source records. Bone crafting has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Basket & natural-fiber weavingWeaving baskets and objects from plant fiber, bark, straw, and grass.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
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Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: victorian hair jewelry/hair art, flint napping, drop spindling your pet's soft underbelly fur, nalbinding, basket weaving with invasive species (i'm doing this rn!)
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Do you happen to live near cedar trees? The inner bark makes the best material for weaving baskets, hats, mats, and roses 🌹 I have a hat I really need to finish
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: corn husk bats 🦇
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Okay hear me out, I went to a crafting festival in East Tennessee when I was a kid and I stayed ALL DAY at the corn husk doll making booth. I made a princess with a crown and scepter… to this day, still my favorite.
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Have you turned a gourd into a birdhouse and painted it??? Super fun
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
What readers reported: I love crafting with gourds👍
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Try spinning gourds on a rotisserie, using pigments, glitters, alcohol inks, with an epoxy finish.
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Making maracas out of dried gourds!!
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Nantucket Basket Weaving. It’s addictive and you are set on gifts forever
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: did a pine needle basket weaving class this weekend and it’s my new obsession
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Paper Honeycomb decorations , German style woodland crafts (think birdfeeder made out of woven branches, decorated with evergreens and berries and filled with suet), spun cotton crafts (a little like needle felting but done with cotton instead of wool), birch bark baskets and picture frames.…
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: Have you done any glass working? Intaglio or screen printing? Or straw marquetry? None of this is niche but still
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
What readers reported: cyanotyping, perfume making (specifically enfleurage), stained glass making, etching glass, wood carving, lace tatting, rug tufting, Victorian hair work jewelry, graphite watercolors, paper quilling, French beaded flowers, weaving straw hats,…
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: under water basket weaving
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: One of my artsy obsessions for five or so minutes growing up was wheat weaving. It's satisfying.
Best for: Basket & natural-fiber weaving
Why readers recommended it: willow, bigger baskets
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Underwater basket weaving
I make baskets using hair from a horse's tail - have you tried basket making?
I have tried hundreds of different things and there are still so many out there that I haven't tried. pine needle basket, weaving, silk painting, fiber processing, spinning, miniature making.... there is also a whole list of endangered crafts found here: [link removed]
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20 indexed entries draw on 105 distinct source records. Basket weaving has the broadest support in this group (41 source records).
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LeatherworkingCutting, tooling, and sewing leather and tanned hide into goods.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Leatherworking
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Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: Cobbling, micro crochet, book binding, book edge painting, making door hinge toppers (3d print or sculpt), & earring jackets (Liz fox Roseberry has tutorials)
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: I make dog collars and leashes from leather I get from old yard sale purses? Then donate them to rescues? I feel like that’s so niche I’m probably 1 of 1?
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: upcycle vintage handbags
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: I tan hides and have an ebook on my website using only traditional methods
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: I make dog collars and leashes from leather I get from old yard sale purses? Then donate them to rescues? I feel like that’s so niche I’m probably 1 of 1?
Best for: Leatherworking
Best for: Leatherworking
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: What about hand-binding books like with book cloth & the whole thing where they look like vintage books. Or putting gemstones & other things with leather to make hand-made notebooks. You can also make your one paper & add in dried flowers, colors, oils, etc.
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: I have a friend who is an amazing henna artist. She took those skills and used a wood burning tool to do incredible henna design leather boots and bags.
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: leather crafting and vintage leather repair have been my recents
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: Learn how to hand sew leather with an awl!!!
Best for: Leatherworking
What readers reported: Buy a tattoo gun on Amazon, get Angelis leather paints, and get leather cuts (coasters, bags, etc) and tattoo leather! It’s such a unique medium to work with!
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: i am extremely stressed out that crown molding is a dying art. see also: leather tooling
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: needle felting? lace weaving? book binding? leather? calligraphy and wax seals? glassblowing? I am racking my brain to think of anything that theres a chance you havent done lol id be kinda shocked if youve never made something with leather
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: Making your own moccasins. Going to first nations art store to buy the animal hide and beads.
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: Parfleche
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: Design a saddle 🤔🏇🐎🐴
Best for: Leatherworking
Why readers recommended it: Oh book binding too! Also on my bucket list is learning from a cobbler about shoe construction
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Buy a tattoo gun on Amazon, get Angelis leather paints, and get leather cuts (coasters, bags, etc) and tattoo leather! It’s such a unique medium to work with!
I tan hides and have an ebook on my website using only traditional methods
What about hand-binding books like with book cloth & the whole thing where they look like vintage books. Or putting gemstones & other things with leather to make hand-made notebooks. You can also make your one paper & add in dried flowers, colors, oils, etc.
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18 indexed entries draw on 64 distinct source records. Leatherworking has the broadest support in this group (36 source records).
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Structural & furniture buildingBuilding furniture, birdhouses, and small structures.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Structural & furniture building
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Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: My kids and I spent the fall making and painting super basic cat houses for the farm/ feral cats on our acreage. We used pallet wood that we sanded and painted them. It was just silly and creative. We used mostly recycled material and now it serves a purpose! If not cat houses, maybe some bird houses :)
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: I made my cats a bunk bed last week!! I’m making the mattresses rn!!
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: My kids and I spent the fall making and painting super basic cat houses for the farm/ feral cats on our acreage. We used pallet wood that we sanded and painted them. It was just silly and creative. We used mostly recycled material and now it serves a purpose! If not cat houses, maybe some bird houses :)
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: i am extremely stressed out that crown molding is a dying art. see also: leather tooling
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: I tirn old furniture like this dresser drawer into other furniture 🥰
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: Tiny log cabin for the birds/chipmunks
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: I build mud kitchens, then play like im 6.
Best for: Structural & furniture building
Why readers recommended it: In high school I built a treehouse w just a hammer nails and wood lmao u could try that
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I tirn old furniture like this dresser drawer into other furniture 🥰
Tiny log cabin for the birds/chipmunks
Upcycling clothes or furniture?
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Home, decor and functional craftsHome, decor and functional crafts — 123 items
Small decor, ornaments & signageSmall decorative objects and signage for the home.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Small decor, ornaments & signage
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Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I’m in the process of making a hanging bead thing for the entrance of my bedroom with twine and glass beads for the shimmer when the sun hits it.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I used to really enjoy painting birdhouses🤷🏻♀️
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I'm obsessed with making tiny Christmas Trees with bottle brush trees, glue gun, beads, old jewelry & small ornaments. I gift them at Christmas time.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Capiz shell wall art!! 🐬🐚🌺
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Make a aesthetic circuit box - I saw a girl on here make one as a kindle
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: U could build a Cobb house
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
What readers reported: Making your own lip balm and solid fragrance are both fun with some overlap in materials for lower waste/ better deals, also quilling is an almost lost paper art! I recently saw kits for ‘square a month’ slow process quilt making if you’re open to sewing,…
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Making custom ducks for my upcoming cruise so my kids can hide them 🥰
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I make dog slow feeder bowls 😋
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Painting porcelain dolls into succulent planters?
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: fabric squares, pins, styrofoam balls= beautiful ornaments 🥹
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I make fake wax food for candlemakers and make my own molds. 😁[link removed]
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Faux fireplace. Styrofoam from trash and peel n stick brick from dollar tree. Cheap and fun.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: These flower letters were fun to make!
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: borders for tvs, mirrors, frames. Mermaid/fairy vibes. Or painting your body then putting it on canvas is a lot of fun too
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: make fridge magnets/letter sets! i draw whatever i want on paper, color, cut, laminate, and then just add magnets on the back.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: styrofoam rollers cut in half with fabric glued on top in a cute little frame for my rings and earrings!!!
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I like to spray paint keys and make key chimes. I twirl a wire hanger and hang them from it. I've made lots of different themed ones. even sold some
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Mardi Gras tree toppers. We all convert our Christmas trees to Mardi Gras trees, but all of the toppers suck.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I make mushroom lights
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Waterproof paper maché clay to make furniture out of cardboard bases. I started with piñatas lol. I’m also currently needle felting, making a holder for my nectar collector from cold porcelain and making my mans a lil dab tray haha
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Make a phone case - use a blank one and put clay and charms on it. Sooo cute
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: design phone cases <3
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: pin and sequin ornaments!
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I turn pinecones into wall art
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Pin Christmas ornaments
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Order pressed flowers from Amazon and grab some mod podge and make a lantern 😊
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Pushpin ornaments! Styrofoam ball, ribbon, pins.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been repurposing small vintage suitcases for specific organization, like a portable desk w compartments for holding supplies, some are specific for painting, sewing, etc I’m trying to trick myself into getting organized
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Make one of those really cool flower and reclaimed wood rosin trays or something
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I saw someone say they made their own Roman blinds
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I plan to make Christmas ornaments out of thrifted salt or pepper shakers. I can't find the original post on here, but when I make one I'll revisit.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Go to western Alaska collect a bunch of sea glass off the beach in Nome, start making magnets with the treasure.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been meaning to make this seashell jewelry dish
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Idk about niche but I collected sea shells then turned them into magnets for my fridge. Bedazzled everything. Color me mine weekly. Junk journal.
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Us your crafting abilities to donate in your community, cakes for foster kids, I donate seasonal decor for my local library! You could do birthday decor for kids and need or foster care!
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Make a house numbers sign
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: trinket frames!!
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: I have NO business reading these comments. Here I go to finish the 1,000 projects I’ve already started. Anyone need a blinged out tumbler?
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Venetian plaster
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Try watch making
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Build wedding decor and then you could rent it on fb marketplace after
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Wine bottle lamps
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
What readers reported: I do a lot of niche artwork, I make healing dolls and craft together anything from nature and whatever to make a doll and use it as a healing doll. Like a walnut for a head, crystals and sticks. Also I make witches bells for home protection.…
Best for: Small decor, ornaments & signage
Why readers recommended it: Making wreaths us fun, I made a fairy one yesterday 🥰
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Pushpin ornaments! Styrofoam ball, ribbon, pins.
I make dog slow feeder bowls 😋
Make a aesthetic circuit box - I saw a girl on here make one as a kindle
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49 indexed entries draw on 64 distinct source records. Pushpin ornament making has the broadest support in this group (10 source records).
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Furniture, restoration & home-building projectsBuilding, restoring, or renovating furniture and larger home structures.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
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Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Air Dry boho wall shelf. These look pretty cool. I think you can create the base with cardboard.
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Paint by numbers or making beer pong tables and pouring resin over the paint to seal it.
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I branched out to pretty diy projects in my yard! rn I’m building a fire pit and making my own mosaic pieces to decorate it with. And of course gotta build and paint pretty benches to go with it too 💖🙏
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I branched out to pretty diy projects in my yard! rn I’m building a fire pit and making my own mosaic pieces to decorate it with. And of course gotta build and paint pretty benches to go with it too 💖🙏
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Make children’s chairs from 5 gallon buckets. My family has been making them for 3 generations I’ve just leveled the designs way way up
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Redecorating an old camper
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I’ve made shelves out of paper cardboard and glue. Also made mushroom shelves with glue and paint. I just made a basket out of an old t shirt last night.
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I built a disco ball bar cart for my apartment, super fun and useful too
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I branched out to pretty diy projects in my yard! rn I’m building a fire pit and making my own mosaic pieces to decorate it with. And of course gotta build and paint pretty benches to go with it too 💖🙏
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Just get into flipping houses or furniture I’m sure you can find something that way
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
What readers reported: Here’s my list of things I have an embarrassing amount of money invested in. Some I liked, some not as much: Rug Hooking, glass lamp work ( have the whole set up),silver enameling ( have a ton of money it- haven’t tried it yet🙄), silver clay,…
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: propagate.make diy fences for your garden
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Pivot to DIY. The possibilities are endless! I just gutted and remodeled my bathroom 100% on my own (I’m in sales literally have never worked in the trades)
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I came to the conclusion that home improvement is at the top of the arts and crafts pyramid 🙄
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Idk but I’m building a house
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Mosaic table
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: I’ve made shelves out of paper cardboard and glue. Also made mushroom shelves with glue and paint. I just made a basket out of an old t shirt last night.
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Remodeling a single wide trailer
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Gelli Art, Trinket Shelves
Best for: Furniture, restoration & home-building projects
Why readers recommended it: Very niche: In 2008 I found a Goyard Steamer Trunk in a yard sale walking to my car. Taught myself how to recondition/repair & research Ellis island records vs the stickers. Sold for $$$$$. Then I found a Louis Vuitton one painted black and taught myself paint and hardware stripping & restoration. I’d find 1-2 a year. They were coffee tables,…
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Make children’s chairs from 5 gallon buckets. My family has been making them for 3 generations I’ve just leveled the designs way way up
Very niche: In 2008 I found a Goyard Steamer Trunk in a yard sale walking to my car. Taught myself how to recondition/repair & research Ellis island records vs the stickers. Sold for $$$$$. Then I found a Louis Vuitton one painted black and taught myself paint and hardware stripping & restoration. I’d find 1-2 a year. They were coffee tables, store displays. One went to a well known fashion designer in SoHo. was a very fun hobby bc it was insanely lucrative until google lens and others caught on.
Have you tried redoing your entire house every time you get bored or have a bad day? Seems to be my go-to
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21 indexed entries draw on 25 distinct source records. Home renovation has the broadest support in this group (5 source records).
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Candle, soap & bath/beauty product makingMaking candles, soap, and personal-care products at home.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
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Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass making, book end painting, Chinese embroidery, hat making, shoe making, perfume making, soap making, bath bombs, ribbon flowers, paper beads, origami, plushy making, tarot cards (not a crafty hobby but very interesting) :3
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Candle carving or glass blowing!
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: I make candle flowers
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: painting candles, pyrography, putting rhinestones on things, pipe cleaning flowers,
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: making your own cosmetics. formulating is so much fun, I just don't have the funds nor time for it anymore
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: I make my own makeup
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Diy skin care/home products. I’ve made lotion, fizzing bath salts, air freshner, and multi-purpose cleaner
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Ohhhhhh, you might love it then. I started with buying a small starter kit on Etsy, there’s one that came with a booklet suggesting blends for health, meditation, cleansing etc. I think I came with charcoals so you could burn it like that but I wanted to make the sticks so found the binding powder and bamboo sticks on eBay.…
What readers reported: Ohhhhhh, you might love it then. I started with buying a small starter kit on Etsy, there’s one that came with a booklet suggesting blends for health, meditation, cleansing etc.…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
What readers reported: Making your own lip balm and solid fragrance are both fun with some overlap in materials for lower waste/ better deals, also quilling is an almost lost paper art! I recently saw kits for ‘square a month’ slow process quilt making if you’re open to sewing,…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals), basket weaving (but ethically forage or grow your own material), spinning fiber into yarn and weaving cloth, natural dying, cyanotyping,…
What readers reported: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals),…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Botanical distillation! Make hydrosols and essential oils, perfumery and small batch skin care. Very witchy.
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: candles in the sand with driftwood
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: i cleaned out all my craft supplies when i found myself in this situation...and now I'm starting back through the list, beginning with skincare (ik ik but the way I do it, it's far more about the process than about my skin ). mostly I just enjoy buying the supplies for hobbies,…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Soap making! So many beautiful colours fragrances and moulds
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
What readers reported: Making your own lip balm and solid fragrance are both fun with some overlap in materials for lower waste/ better deals, also quilling is an almost lost paper art! I recently saw kits for ‘square a month’ slow process quilt making if you’re open to sewing,…
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: make bergamot boxes and fill with soy candles or paint them like the 1800 type!
Best for: Candle, soap & bath/beauty product making
Why readers recommended it: Not sure what it's called 🤔 but the make candles under water maybe dragon candles 🤔 not sure but dam they look so cool 😎
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I make realistic candles! 🥰
Reborn doll painting, cold process soap making
Botanical distillation! Make hydrosols and essential oils, perfumery and small batch skin care. Very witchy.
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20 indexed entries draw on 51 distinct source records. Candle making has the broadest support in this group (14 source records).
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Lighting & lamp makingBuilding lamps, lampshades, and light fixtures.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Lighting & lamp making
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Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Beaded lampshade
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: I built a chandelier out of paint stir sticks lol 🥰 it’s so cool and i have done some commission too!
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: And cloud lamps
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
What readers reported: just finished a floral chandelier for my room and I'm super in love. hula hoop and pool noodles for the win
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: I’ll for sure have to try and make one! My plan is to take orders and sell them! Each one takes over 5 hours to make and they cost around $300!😅
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: I like going to thrifts stores, specifically ones geared towards vintage items to find retro lamp shades, so I can turn them into jellyfish lamps. Does that count as niche? 😉
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Kaleidoscopes
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Wine bottle lamps
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: You want niche? I’ll give you niche. I started buying second hand ugly lamps and redoing them. Turned into a full on hobby like 20 hours a week for a year. I’ll get back to it when my babies are older but it was soooo fun
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Put broaches on a lampshade babe. Add some tassel for pizazz
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried making a lampshade from scratch? And hand sew it all
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: making your own lava lamps
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Learned how to solder from YouTube and made an LED “neon” sign. 🥰
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Mod podge picture lamp!
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Moroccan lamps?👀
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: I'm a hobby whore, have most things arts and crafts but the 2 things I've always wanted to try or create are beyond my budget or not available to the at home DIYer..I have always wanted to do glass blowing (I know plenty that suck on it 😜) I want to recreate an oil school oil drop lamp with a fairy garden in the middle.…
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: have you made a victorian lamp
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Best for: Lighting & lamp making
Why readers recommended it: Currently making vintage lampshades to cover this ugly lamp will try to update when finished
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I made a flower lamp for my living room! 😅
make a lampshade !!!! you can get the wire on amazon and it’s a lot of work !! and a lot of personalization! super cute and fun
Lamp shade making!!
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19 indexed entries draw on 37 distinct source records. Lampshade making has the broadest support in this group (12 source records).
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Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decorSmall hanging pieces for a window or wall -- suncatchers, chimes, and beaded curtains.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
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Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: wire animal shapes to hold air plants. these are shaped like flamingos but air plants make good tails for a lot of different animals.
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
What readers reported: this isn't one of my better key Chimes. this was one of my first ones. I made way better ones. but I've sold some. you can do all themes. I've made baby mobile ones
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: I’m making a bead curtain right now it’s kept me busy for 3 months
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: Southern gothic wind chimes my fiance and I make ethically sourced bones
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: crystal curtains
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: lately I've been working on lamps shades , and sun catcher with real crystals ! 😋🌸🎀
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
What readers reported: this isn’t very niche but curtain beads!! i love them so much and they’re so fun to make, also teaching yourself how to sew. it’s SO fun once you figure it out. here’s some of the beads i’ve made
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: Season/holiday themed garland🥰
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: mini bead curtains? Cross stitching?
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: I did a moss mirror
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: moss wall frames
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: Also, try a plant hanger!
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: I like those frames with wire and beads dangling in the sun.. hope that explains it lol
Best for: Suncatchers, wind chimes & hanging decor
Why readers recommended it: My mom takes breads and sees glass and broken plants and makes like a curtain wind chimes
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this isn’t very niche but curtain beads!! i love them so much and they’re so fun to make, also teaching yourself how to sew. it’s SO fun once you figure it out. here’s some of the beads i’ve made
I make Sun Catchers! ✨🥰
I just started collecting glass beads to make sun catching beaded curtain
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14 indexed entries draw on 37 distinct source records. Beaded curtain making has the broadest support in this group (13 source records).
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Clay, ceramics and sculptureClay, ceramics and sculpture — 95 items
Sculpture, casting & mixed clay artSculpting, molding, and casting figures and objects in clay and other materials.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
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Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Hydrostone…..aroma stones, add fragrance oil to the base of the stones, they absorb it and smell gorgeous
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Collect turtle bones(and other bones) and make an alligator snapping turtle/Godzilla/blastoise with clay. Just what I’m doing…(this but picture it bones and painted sculpted clay and bone swards)
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: not sure what it's exactly called but canvas sculpture
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: I do upcycled cardboard sculptures, process my own paper clay🤷♀️
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: the world of mold making and casting has lots of weird shit goin on
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: You know, baby bell cheese? Those little red wax coverings can be turned into sculptures. It’s my fourth grade students’ favorite craft 😂😂
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: I take really ugly statues that I find at Goodwill or other places like yard sales and I make my own clay, and I turn it into something else. I also make tiny tiny fairies that sew.
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: coffee ground clay
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Have you ever hand sculpted the Hocus Pocus book out of cotton balls? Or a 90s Halloween chicken nugget toy? Or a palm pet opossum? Tutorials on my page 😂 ✌️
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Try encaustic painting and sculpture. The smell is intoxicating in a good way. My fav medium ❤
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: fake cakes w styrofoam and lightweight spackle you could so a sculpture or do a one tier n make it a mirror! you cld do it alot more cutesy but this was my take
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Foam carving. Like giant structures
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: My friends and I use to buy the foam heads and make busts of random people or whoever lol 😂
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Chew a bunch of gum and sculpt the 8 wonders of the world out of all the pieces you chewed until flavorless
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Making Jade walnuts. Or that Japanese art of polishing dirt balls called Hikaru Dorodango
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art of putting broken pottery back together with a golden adhesive….
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: I use spray foam insulation to make skulls in a silicone mold, spray paint them and add them to canvas. My friends have loved receiving them as gifts. This is a bad one but some of them have turned out SO GOOD. 💖✨
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: the world of mold making and casting has lots of weird shit goin on
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: I do bead embroidery, doll customizing, cyanotype, wet specimens, bug pinning, jewelry making and I’m getting into metal smithing, paper mache sculpture/mask making, and wet felting hats!
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Make vintage looking cakes out of plaster and paint and decorate them!
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: making plaster molds for decorating. some of them can get very Very detailed and absolutely beautiful if done right
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: My mom used to do porcelain lace draping. It’s so cool but difficult.
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: I make tiny things out of porcelain and silver clay. Not that niche I guess. My brother in law restores super old cameras and does all sorts of creative shooting/exposing techniques
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Make rocks
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Salt dough ornaments
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: I use spray foam insulation to make skulls in a silicone mold, spray paint them and add them to canvas. My friends have loved receiving them as gifts. This is a bad one but some of them have turned out SO GOOD. 💖✨
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Stryofoam cutting
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: Making art books!!! Also, waxwork, weaving, and scrimshaw!
Best for: Sculpture, casting & mixed clay art
Why readers recommended it: [account] I made a sculpture out of whippets and hot glue once that was pretty
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Making Jade walnuts. Or that Japanese art of polishing dirt balls called Hikaru Dorodango
Dorodango. Mud balls made into *fragile* shiny marbles. 🤣 it’s fun, relaxing and time consuming.
Stained glass, pottery, needle felting, sculpture, mosaic
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34 indexed entries draw on 72 distinct source records. Hikaru dorodango has the broadest support in this group (15 source records).
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Polymer, air-dry & paper clay craftsSculpting with polymer clay, air-dry clay, and paper clay -- no kiln required.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
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Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: well next on my list is a tiktok I saw of a girl making homemade tiles (decorative) with air dry clay and and decoupage napkins. they're gorgeoussssss
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: I made golden butthole ornaments out of air dry clay, paint, & velvet ribbon. Super fun.
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Clay making coasters is fun & cute, not complex as I get bored too easily for the huge time consuming hobbies on here 😂😅
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: I saw a girl make an egg carton out of clay and then out this beautiful blue floral pattern like modge podge on it was stunning
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Have you made a leash for your Roku remote? Have you made a pouch for your vape? Resin, paper making or a clay glasses holder?
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: mosaic crochet, metal clay jewelry, soft soldered jewelry, clay lighter cases, window "stained glass" clings, needle felting, rug tufting, shrinky dinks, tatting, fillet crochet, spinning, pony bead and perler bead stuff ✨
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Clay lighters!
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Get air dry clay, gorilla glue, And magnets. And make your own fridge magnets.
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make/source ur own clay girl
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: It’s not niche but crochet alpha patterns really keep me interested also clay sculpting over glass b*ngs
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Cold porcelain clay flowers! They are very realistic and can be posed because they are flexible! I have been doing them for a few years but there’s artists that can make lifelike,forever lasting bouquets!
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Waterproof paper maché clay to make furniture out of cardboard bases. I started with piñatas lol. I’m also currently needle felting, making a holder for my nectar collector from cold porcelain and making my mans a lil dab tray haha
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: I suggest ventriloquism... or if that's creepy to you, the foam clay is fun
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Clay crafts in the oven
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Idk if it’s niche. BUT, painted clay lighter covers look cool as hell. Also if there’s an expensive kind of china/tableware you like you could copy it
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: paper clay!!
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: You can make your own paper clay!
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: I do upcycled cardboard sculptures, process my own paper clay🤷♀️
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Not niche but I’ve been loving making polymer clay bag charms
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Polymer clay canes. Tambour embroidery.
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: paper quilling, clay, polymer clay, felting, embroidery
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: bjd or doll customizing and faceups. or make photo realistic food from polymer clay.
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: What about Palmer clay magnets?! you can get super creative!
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: My son makes the hunger games domes out of polymer clay 🤷🏼♀️
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
What readers reported: Look up soutache, it’s done with fabric normally. However I work best with clay so I did soutache in polymer clay ✨
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
What readers reported: I have adhd and feel the same. I have a mini Michael’s in my house. Have you tried hand embroidery? I hand embroidery sweatshirts and shirts for friends, fam, teachers, etc. Love doing it and it’s always something different to sew.…
Best for: Polymer, air-dry & paper clay crafts
Why readers recommended it: Go out and dig clay and make a vessel from it and fire it. Do a vitrification test to see if it will hold water without glaze.
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I made golden butthole ornaments out of air dry clay, paint, & velvet ribbon. Super fun.
bjd or doll customizing and faceups. or make photo realistic food from polymer clay.
Clay making coasters is fun & cute, not complex as I get bored too easily for the huge time consuming hobbies on here 😂😅
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27 indexed entries draw on 46 distinct source records. Polymer clay sculpting has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramicsThrowing and firing clay vessels on a wheel or in a kiln.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
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Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: Get a whole lot of cardboard of different thicknesses, pick a piece of pottery, and figure out how to make it out of cardboard. Then figure out how to give it a concrete/ceramic/etc texture. Idk what it’s called but I do this lol
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: Origami, Japanese clay pot forming, silk paint, taxidermy?
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: Wanna fire a wood kiln?
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: This made me think of finding natural clay to do your ceramics with! Where I’m from there’s a salt marsh w natural clay, idk how easy it is to find elsewhere, but that would be sick!!
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: i just recently got into pottery and started making indian themed items! this was my first item!!
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: Idk about niche but I collected sea shells then turned them into magnets for my fridge. Bedazzled everything. Color me mine weekly. Junk journal.
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: raku! its an outdoor natural form of pottery
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: im also a huge fan of wheel throwing but im a ceramics major and its not that niche so
Best for: Pottery & wheel-thrown ceramics
Why readers recommended it: Wood firing pottery
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i just recently got into pottery and started making indian themed items! this was my first item!!
Stained glass, pottery, needle felting, sculpture, mosaic
raku! its an outdoor natural form of pottery
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13 indexed entries draw on 38 distinct source records. Pottery has the broadest support in this group (20 source records).
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Mosaics & tile artArranging small pieces of tile, glass, or ceramic into a larger design.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Mosaics & tile art
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Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: Diamond art had me for a few months but I want to get into making little ceramic tiles and hand painting them to redo my kitchen backsplash
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: Diamond art had me for a few months but I want to get into making little ceramic tiles and hand painting them to redo my kitchen backsplash
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: Make ceramic worry stones or sign up for my mail club to get one monthly. ☀️
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
What readers reported: Lippan art & mirror work 🥰
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: My Grammy introduced me to this mosaic tings over the weekend and it was cute and fun
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: Seaglass mosaics if you live near the ocean!
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: Cement Tiles or Terrazzo table top
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: theres a type of artesinial tile making thats going extinct! that might be cool to learn 💕
Best for: Mosaics & tile art
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
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My Grammy introduced me to this mosaic tings over the weekend and it was cute and fun
Mosaics but with tiles you made yourself
Stained glass, pottery, needle felting, sculpture, mosaic
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11 indexed entries draw on 35 distinct source records. Mosaics has the broadest support in this group (28 source records).
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Stone, cement & mineral carvingCarving and casting stone, cement, and mineral materials.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Stone, cement & mineral carving
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Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
What readers reported: Me too and there’s still some I REALLY wish I could afford to try lol- rug tufting, modern oversized cement garden sculptures, I also love punch needle!
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: Cement Tiles or Terrazzo table top
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: concrete plates or bowls
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: limestone and wood carving is on my list lol
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: gemstone faceting. rug tufting. marble sculpture. whittling. yarn making. mirrored embroidery and tambour beading
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: Papercrete
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: Carving soapstone is a good one for me. I’m not very good at drawing or painting but for some reason phenomenal at turning a literal rock into a scaled version of something else (animals, cars, etc.) using nothing but files, sand paper and a dremel lol
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Stone, cement & mineral carving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
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I make barn quilts & carve in stone with a Dremel…
Carve small stones with a dremel into whatever you want (pls use proper precaution for not inhaling the dust if you do)
Have you tried stone carving?
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10 indexed entries draw on 19 distinct source records. Stone carving has the broadest support in this group (7 source records).
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Food, garden and nature hobbiesFood, garden and nature hobbies — 114 items
Baking, cooking & candy/food craftsBaking, decorating, and crafting with food as the material.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
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Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Baking is probably the most diverse mode of creativity I’ve found that presents challenge, patience and can be as wild/unique as you want it to be.
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: I took cake decorating classes and now I have that as a secret talent 😂
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
What readers reported: Start canning. I LOVE gardening and I LOVE canning. Making tinctures and body oils from medicinal flowers/herbs from my garden. 10/10.
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make your own sour cream, mozzarella, butter, and ketchups. It’s relaxing 😂
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Eat your flowers cookbook
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make your own sour cream, mozzarella, butter, and ketchups. It’s relaxing 😂
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Make your own sour cream, mozzarella, butter, and ketchups. It’s relaxing 😂
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: jello art/gelatin flowers
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: I’m taking college ceramics 2 (in my free time I’m making my own gingerbread christmas village because I couldn’t find anything that looked cute in stores)
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Have you made artisan gummies before?? Get gummy base from Candy Pros!
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: glass blowing, herbal bag charms, shoe making, book binding?
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Wild crafting and foraging then making your own medicines, tea blends, foods, beers/wines/kombuchas or syrups etc 🫴✨🌱💚🍀
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Canning jams
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Making animals/ shoes with marzipan (almond paste)
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: I just saw someone make tiny casserole dish shaped ravioli so.. pasta art but on hard mode
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Try making my printed cake sandwiches 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 or my martini cakes!!
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Sourdough!
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: Wild crafting and foraging then making your own medicines, tea blends, foods, beers/wines/kombuchas or syrups etc 🫴✨🌱💚🍀
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
What readers reported: Start canning. I LOVE gardening and I LOVE canning. Making tinctures and body oils from medicinal flowers/herbs from my garden. 10/10.
Best for: Baking, cooking & candy/food crafts
Why readers recommended it: My adhd hobby is learning new crafts and I’m 39 so LOL I got you girl: reverse guilding/sign painting, diy letterpress using custom ordered plates and a Sizzix machine, screen printing using vinyl and screen stretched in embroidery hoops, candles, make vanilla extract and flavored bourbons to give at Christmas next year, wire wrapping, batik,
Source-record spotlights
I took cake decorating classes and now I have that as a secret talent 😂
I crossed over into gluten free sourdough break 😂
I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but you could try cake decorating/treat making or doing press on nails!
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29 indexed entries draw on 43 distinct source records. Cake decorating has the broadest support in this group (9 source records).
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Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbiesKeeping living aquatic systems and colonies, and fermenting or distilling at home.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
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Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: My new hobbies as of current are aquascaping and stained glass.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Have you tried beekeeping? 😅
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
What readers reported: Start canning. I LOVE gardening and I LOVE canning. Making tinctures and body oils from medicinal flowers/herbs from my garden. 10/10.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Botanical distillation! Make hydrosols and essential oils, perfumery and small batch skin care. Very witchy.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Not arts and crafts but kinda…Aquascaping & fish keeping 👀
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: My adhd hobby is learning new crafts and I’m 39 so LOL I got you girl: reverse guilding/sign painting, diy letterpress using custom ordered plates and a Sizzix machine, screen printing using vinyl and screen stretched in embroidery hoops, candles, make vanilla extract and flavored bourbons to give at Christmas next year, wire wrapping, batik,
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: IDK that it’s an art/craft but I went from crocheting to doing at home distilling and made whiskey🤣
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Wild crafting and foraging then making your own medicines, tea blends, foods, beers/wines/kombuchas or syrups etc 🫴✨🌱💚🍀
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: You should preserve and dress up giant beatles.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Could you bedazzle a guitar for me? Or make living wreaths-my mom did these when I was growing up and they are so beautiful and fun!
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Mini Aquascaping in potion bottles 🌿✨️
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Miniscapes ❤️❤️❤️
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: botany. like cross breeding flowers, cactus, fruits, which gets you to understand bees and wealther, Mushrooms?
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: If you’re into plants I just found out about nanotanks
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Dying eggs with natural food substances and herbs. Creating your own die from foods and herbs and spices . Using nylons and rubber bands to sandwich flowers ferns and leaves against the eggs . I did this with my friends and our children 25 years ago . absolutely gorgeous an incredibly fun.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Walks in nature is underrated
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Carve a potato. Put some googly eyes on it.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: saw someone putting faces on potatoes and tried it for Christmas, we had a great time. Like mr potato head but much creepier.
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
What readers reported: Not exactly arts and crafts but pumpkin carving through stencils… can only really do it once a year but every year you get better. I even bought a pumpkin carving dremel… extremely niche
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I’m a pumpkin sculptor. Get some Thai carving tools and try watermelon carving
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Collect rocks and make rock flowers 💕
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Saltwater aquarium
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Those mushroom prints where the spores make the print
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I carved a pumpkin underwater..I feel like that’s niche
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: I’m a pumpkin sculptor. Get some Thai carving tools and try watermelon carving
Best for: Aquascaping, animal-keeping & fermentation hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Wine brewing
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Have you tried beekeeping? 😅
I’m a pumpkin sculptor. Get some Thai carving tools and try watermelon carving
Dying eggs with natural food substances and herbs. Creating your own die from foods and herbs and spices . Using nylons and rubber bands to sandwich flowers ferns and leaves against the eggs . I did this with my friends and our children 25 years ago . absolutely gorgeous an incredibly fun.
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Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservationPreserving and studying insects, animals, and biological specimens.
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Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Articulation
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: bugified botanicals but don’t forget to credit [account] !!
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: I’m building a butterfly house and growing milkweed
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Learn how to pin butterflies 🦋
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Butterfly taxidermy. It’s my favorite thing to do.
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Diaphonization! It’s really cool if you’re not squeamish, I’ve been wanting to get into it for years (pre-warning before you google, it uses passed small animals like fish and things to preserve the bones & soft tissues in chemicals)
Limit: Diaphonization! It’s really cool if you’re not squeamish, I’ve been wanting to get into it for years (pre-warning before you google, it uses passed small animals like fish and things to preserve the bones & soft tissues in chemicals)
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: bugs. entomology.
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Insect pinning! Make sure you get them from ethical places but it’s so much fun! And you make beautiful art! 🖤
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: I learned how to pin and frame butterflies in the pandemic it was quite a ride
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Learn how to spread butterflies and moths to turn them into art after! That was my 2020 craft project and now I make money off of it.
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Jumping spider enclosures
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: I raise monarchs every year! I’ve moved into just supporting their natural habitats
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Building tiny spider houses (not my pic)
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Preserving spider webs on canvas
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: Taxidermy a stuffed animal to hang on the wall, just the head
Best for: Insect, taxidermy & specimen preservation
Why readers recommended it: I do bead embroidery, doll customizing, cyanotype, wet specimens, bug pinning, jewelry making and I’m getting into metal smithing, paper mache sculpture/mask making, and wet felting hats!
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Diaphonization! It’s really cool if you’re not squeamish, I’ve been wanting to get into it for years (pre-warning before you google, it uses passed small animals like fish and things to preserve the bones & soft tissues in chemicals)
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Butterfly taxidermy. It’s my favorite thing to do.
Jumping spider habitat design
bug pinning! you can pim butterflies, beetles, scorpions. its so much fun and they look beautiful as wall decor
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20 indexed entries draw on 94 distinct source records. Taxidermy has the broadest support in this group (52 source records).
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Gardening & plant cultivationGrowing and shaping living plants.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Gardening & plant cultivation
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Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
What readers reported: bonsai from a baby. relaxing and u will love it like family. also they can live for centuries so u can pass it on
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: fairy gardens! 🧚♀️
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Wild crafting and foraging then making your own medicines, tea blends, foods, beers/wines/kombuchas or syrups etc 🫴✨🌱💚🍀
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: I’m building a butterfly house and growing milkweed
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals), basket weaving (but ethically forage or grow your own material), spinning fiber into yarn and weaving cloth, natural dying, cyanotyping,…
What readers reported: rug tufting, paper making, non tox beauty making, leather work, jewelry making (pmc specifically), guerilla gardening (with native species only duh) and propagation (bonus points for food sources and medicinals),…
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Grow Indigofera tinctoria and make a swatch panel of different organic fibers.
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Green house cabinet with rare plants!
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Pine needle baskets, living willow structure, macrame, origami
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: botany. like cross breeding flowers, cactus, fruits, which gets you to understand bees and wealther, Mushrooms?
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Macrame for spider plants. Have to propagate the plants also.
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Propagation chandelier
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: make a pollinator garden bed or in pots on the patio.
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: hedge sculpture
Best for: Gardening & plant cultivation
Why readers recommended it: Wild crafting and foraging then making your own medicines, tea blends, foods, beers/wines/kombuchas or syrups etc 🫴✨🌱💚🍀
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Green house cabinet with rare plants!
bonsai, needle felting, and book binding
bobbin lace and basket weaving? or gardening, especially if you grow your own craft supplies like plant based dyes and fibers
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15 indexed entries draw on 33 distinct source records. Gardening has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Flower, botanical & moss craftsArranging and preserving flowers, moss, and other botanical material as decor.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
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Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: have you seen the darling guy who makes gorgeous flower crowns?
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: I highly doubt that. I’ve been collecting and trying different arts and crafts for over 20 years and I’m still finding new crafts out there. Here’s some of what I like: crochet, embroidery, sewing, painting (watercolor, acrylic and oil paints), making lakes pigments, needles felting, wet felting, clay crafts (air dry, polymer, and traditional), beading,…
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
What readers reported: Me and my boyfriend have been doing ikebana, a Japanese art of floral arranging. We love doing it once a week!
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: I sell Kokedama kits!
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: I started getting into moss arrangement on a canvas. It’s preserved so it’s kinda rubbery but won’t change color or die since I think it’s technically dead. You can use standard glue and just paste it on canvas in patterns or organic shapes. You may have already done it but if not. Look into it!
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: After reading through the comments I have decided that you should do a moss wall. And show us your journey. I might have to try it myself. 😁
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: polymer clay, moss wreaths and sculpture is very fun
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: Preserved moss art
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
Why readers recommended it: 🌿🔮Terrariums are super fun! You make itty bitty ecosystems in a pretty jar/vase/lantern! It’s a fairly easy hobby to get into as you can start out with an old sauce jar, forage some plants outside, collect some soil, and then add cute stones or figurines. Sit back,…
Best for: Flower, botanical & moss crafts
What readers reported: Can you learn to make preserved wedding bouquets? I work with resin, making car parts. But I’m too scared to try it for my wedding bouquet.
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🌿🔮Terrariums are super fun! You make itty bitty ecosystems in a pretty jar/vase/lantern! It’s a fairly easy hobby to get into as you can start out with an old sauce jar, forage some plants outside, collect some soil, and then add cute stones or figurines. Sit back, and watch it grow 🥰 This isn’t my terrarium in the photo as I’ve given mine away as gifts lol.
have you seen the darling guy who makes gorgeous flower crowns?
Pressing flowers and leaves makes you leave the house and find great spots.
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13 indexed entries draw on 35 distinct source records. Flower pressing has the broadest support in this group (12 source records).
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Rock, crystal & mineral hobbiesCollecting and cutting rocks, crystals, and geodes.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
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Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Beach combing and then making mosaics from it
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
Why readers recommended it: [account] Phinney collecting 4 leaf clovers and turning them into resin keychains
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 1) Go spelunking and make wands out of your findings. 2) Go to a river, find geodes, break them open with a hammer 3) Make your own clothes fr 4) bedazzle and design a full set of nails… you havent done everything
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 1) Go spelunking and make wands out of your findings. 2) Go to a river, find geodes, break them open with a hammer 3) Make your own clothes fr 4) bedazzle and design a full set of nails… you havent done everything
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
What readers reported: Wood resin! like we have so many tree stumps in my yard I just wanna make a chair or something🤣🤣 but also I love messing with like borax and trying to make crystals you can make really cool ones if you use charcoal powder in it like black diamonds, almost
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
Why readers recommended it: Grow crystals on bones
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
Why readers recommended it: 35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games,…
Best for: Rock, crystal & mineral hobbies
What readers reported: Combined rockhounding, lapidary and jewelry making. You literally dig your own stones from the Earth, polish them and turn them into jewelry. It’s got outside work and inside work.
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[account] Phinney collecting 4 leaf clovers and turning them into resin keychains
Grow crystals on bones
35mm photography, decoden, developing film, perler beads, pipe cleaner crafts, dioramas, polymer clay, origami, fantasy map making, pen pal letters, calligraphy, 3d printing, doll making, stamping, cardboard crafts, animation, sfx makeup, painting miniatures, postcrossing, book binding, paper making, felting, solo rpg journaling games, raspberry pi projects, butterfly/moth breeding, mushroom growing, spray painting, rock tumbling, cosplaying, zentangle… I could go on and on
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8 indexed entries draw on 11 distinct source records. Rockhounding has the broadest support in this group (4 source records).
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Glass artsGlass arts — 46 items
Stained & fused glassJoining or fusing pieces of glass into windows, panels, and mosaics.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Stained & fused glass
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Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: I bleach paint! Slightly niche. More niche things I really want to do: paint my own tarot deck, make a custom book cover, diy faux stained glass
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: Faux stained glass mosaic kits
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: Have you taken a glass fusing class?! Soo fun!
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: Glass fusing, encaustics, Tunisian crochet, paper quilling, kolrosing (wood carving using Viking techniques)
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: lead lighting
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: mosaic crochet, metal clay jewelry, soft soldered jewelry, clay lighter cases, window "stained glass" clings, needle felting, rug tufting, shrinky dinks, tatting, fillet crochet, spinning, pony bead and perler bead stuff ✨
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: Have you seen people make stained glass art?? Sooo cute. I feel like you would be good at that.
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: I make stained glass mosaics :) I don’t know anyone who does because most people use tile or ceramic :)
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: Stained glass terrariums!
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Best for: Stained & fused glass
Why readers recommended it: Make ur own Tiffany lamp!! Or try stained glass
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stained glass making🤭
Fake stained glass is really fun
I wouldn’t consider it niche but have you tried stained glass?
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12 indexed entries draw on 200 distinct source records. Stained glass making has the broadest support in this group (177 source records).
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Glass mosaics & decorative glass objectsAssembling small glass pieces or blown/cast glass into decorative objects.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
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Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: Check out [site removed] or look at my TikTok videos. We sell crushed glass and resin suncatcher kits!
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: Painting with blood or coffee. I have not and have no idea where you would even get blood, ive just seen it done. I’ve done just about everything as well. Want to try Suminagashi because it doesn’t require much planning or thought and would be more relaxing. 20 years of drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, wood working, jewelry, glass, mixed media,…
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: Glass bead making, like glass blowing but smaller scale
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: Rug making or mosaic/glass coasters pieces etc
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: I don’t do this but I wish I could but glass making miniatures
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: I saw this girl on here that thrifts cool colored glass bottles and vases and framed pictures (doesn’t matter the print- the frame and glass is what matters) and she breaks the glass and arranges them into beautifu l floral arrangements on the glass - so it looks like a framed floating bouquet of flowers)
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: I make these plant stakes out of glass nuggets!
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: I’m working on a mosaic lamp👀
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Best for: Glass mosaics & decorative glass objects
Why readers recommended it: making Turkish mosaic lamps
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I saw this girl on here that thrifts cool colored glass bottles and vases and framed pictures (doesn’t matter the print- the frame and glass is what matters) and she breaks the glass and arranges them into beautifu l floral arrangements on the glass - so it looks like a framed floating bouquet of flowers)
It was so COOL and that’s the next thing on my bucket list. She sells them and is so awesome at it, but I’d like to try it, just to try it. Figured I’d share!
Check out [site removed] or look at my TikTok videos. We sell crushed glass and resin suncatcher kits!
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11 indexed entries draw on 20 distinct source records. Glass mosaic making has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Sea glass & found-glass craftsWorking with beach-found or salvaged glass and bottles.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
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Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: Kiln and take bottles and flatten them to make different things
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: Stain glass, needle felting (no it’s not too hard) and crushed glass and resin art
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: Glass bottle cutting can make candles and the tops of wine bottles. You can use to hold your bracelets or scrunchies or skinny candles. You can also buy a kit on Amazon for like 35 bucks.
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: I’ve been tumbling glass and making wind chimes
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: I do this with seaglass my mom & I collect on the local beaches. I’m actually making Disney inspired ones to gift on our next Disney cruise ✨
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: One of my favorite crafts to make are seaglass suncatchers!! I still make them from time to time when someone wants to buy one!
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: crafting with uranium glass its so fun
Best for: Sea glass & found-glass crafts
Why readers recommended it: Making wine bottles into wind chimes 🥰
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I do this with seaglass my mom & I collect on the local beaches. I’m actually making Disney inspired ones to gift on our next Disney cruise ✨
Kiln and take bottles and flatten them to make different things
crafting with uranium glass its so fun
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9 indexed entries draw on 14 distinct source records. Sea glass art has the broadest support in this group (6 source records).
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Glassblowing & lampworkingShaping molten glass with heat and breath at a torch or furnace.
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Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
Why readers recommended it: spinning, blown glass beads
Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
What readers reported: i’m getting my flameworking setup here in LA, would love to have you for a class once i do✨💗
Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
Why readers recommended it: needle felting? lace weaving? book binding? leather? calligraphy and wax seals? glassblowing? I am racking my brain to think of anything that theres a chance you havent done lol id be kinda shocked if youve never made something with leather
Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
Why readers recommended it: Have you done any glass working? Intaglio or screen printing? Or straw marquetry? None of this is niche but still
Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
Why readers recommended it: have you tried lampwork? it's literally the best way to melt money 🤣
Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
Why readers recommended it: I make neon (glass not LED) not sure where you are but some major cities offer classes ✨
Best for: Glassblowing & lampworking
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I want to sooo bad need to take a class!!!
Glass bead lamp work. I picked it up randomly in junior high/high school.
glass blowing? i’ve watched this girl make teenie tiny mushrooms & i wish i had her magic lol
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7 indexed entries draw on 60 distinct source records. Glassblowing has the broadest support in this group (47 source records).
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Glass etching, engraving & carvingCutting or abrading a design into the surface of glass or mirror.
Craft + starter materials and tools + space + cost + learning curve + first project + safety: Glass etching, engraving & carving
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Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Why readers recommended it: upholstery hand embroidery machine embroidery knitting, crochet knitting machine stone carving wood burning leather working ceramics stained glass resin 3d printing lost wax rubber molding metal etching blowing glass risoprint linocut sewing enameling casting textiles design marble marquetry, parquetry,…
Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Why readers recommended it: There’s a girl in Sitka Alaska that etches glass floats that she finds in the bay.
Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Why readers recommended it: We need more people to get into the dying crafts like making lace or glass gilding. Maybe ask chat gpt what the dying crafts are—most likely they’re the ones that are expensive to learn and/or maintain but if you have the funds definitely make a dying craft your personality and save it!!
Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Why readers recommended it: engrave your car’s headlights
Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Best for: Glass etching, engraving & carving
Why readers recommended it: I was super into creepy doll making a few years ago… but didn’t sell well in my area so I gave up. Now I’m onto mirror etching .. we will see how long that lasts..
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I was super into creepy doll making a few years ago… but didn’t sell well in my area so I gave up. Now I’m onto mirror etching .. we will see how long that lasts..
cyanotyping, perfume making (specifically enfleurage), stained glass making, etching glass, wood carving, lace tatting, rug tufting, Victorian hair work jewelry, graphite watercolors, paper quilling, French beaded flowers, weaving straw hats, fore-edge painting books, live willow sculptures, bonsai - to name a few of the more niche options I've dabbled in throughout the years - perhaps there's a few you haven't tried yet!
Leather burning or tooling. Metal or glass etching.
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7 indexed entries draw on 22 distinct source records. Glass etching has the broadest support in this group (8 source records).
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Chosen by how each landed against comments arriving at the same time — the crowd's favorites, plus a few that deserve to be.
The most-recommended crafts
These cards summarize recurring patterns from the captured discussion. Their counts reflect the report's original coding, not a complete catalog of unique people, products, facts, or recommendations.
Stained glass
189 coded comment recordsA recurring pattern in the captured discussion.
- Faux stained glass?? I just finished my first one!♥ 6
- My new hobbies as of current are aquascaping and stained glass.♥ 2
Quilling
133 coded comment recordsPaper coils, infinite patience, gorgeous results.
- Paper quilling♥ 4
- My grandma was really into paper quilling♥ 232
Tatting
132 coded comment recordsThe lace-making art everyone's grandmother knew and almost nobody does now.
- pipe cleaner flowers, tatting, stained glass♥ 3
- Have you tried Tatting? They call it a dying art. It’s making lace. They used to sell a book with a dvd at hobby lobby and I thought myself. I don’t do it often though because I have other hobbies 😁♥ 2
Needle felting
114 coded comment recordsStab wool until it becomes a tiny animal. Therapeutic, allegedly.
- needle felting!♥ 80
- Needle felting♥ 335
Basket weaving
86 coded comment recordsIncluding, yes, underwater basket weaving (2,909 likes).
- Underwater basket weaving♥ 2,909
- Pine needle baskets?♥ 127
Miniatures & dollhouses
79 coded comment recordsHome of the thread's most-liked comment: thrifted-object dioramas.
- u can build a dollhouse from scratch like I did lmao♥ 7,181
- Do not do it! It will most certainly lead to an addiction for miniatures♥ 11
Bookbinding
78 coded comment recordsMake the journal you'll abandon by February — beautifully.
- does book binding count?♥ 89
- Book binding?♥ 5
Lace making
72 coded comment recordsAn endangered craft the thread is trying to save.
- Someone said lace weaving, I second that. It’s a dying craft and how tf do you even do that???♥ 3
- Lace weaving♥ 3
Rug making
65 coded comment recordsTufting guns turned rugs into a personality.
- I make rugs.♥ 5
- Tufting a rug♥ 9
Chainmail
64 coded comment recordsJewelry-scale armor smithing, one ring at a time.
- Chainmail is so fun!! You can make jewelry with it♥ 30
- Chainmail?!♥ 38
Rabbit holes almost nobody saw
Great suggestions that arrived after the crowd moved on — near-zero likes, first-class weirdness.
And one more thing
This is an editorial synthesis of the captured discussion. It highlights recurring ideas without treating them as a complete catalog or independently verified facts.
Dataset, coverage, and methodology
How the complete list was counted
The source corpus contains 5,515 captured comment records: 4,288 top-level comments and 1,227 replies.
The complete index contains 1,712 distinct explicit craft, creative practice, or hobby after conservative alias and spelling normalization; broad categories and materially distinct subtypes remain separate. Spelling variants and source-supported aliases were normalized; every published name retains at least one source record.
The index contains 1,712 entries from 5,515 captured comments; records outside the stated list definition remain part of the source corpus but are not list entries.
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