"Handmade" Blogs & Blog Posts

M.Gemi's Felize driving loafer is the shoe that put the brand on the map. Here are sizing tips and photos of how they hold up after years of wear.

"I've been dabbling around with the CH32V003, a 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller that's unbelievably cheap," writes Tim Alex Jacobs, ominously. The resulting creation is the "smallest and worst" USB MIDI synthesizer known to mankind. To be cle...

Sebastian Staacks made a beautiful custom Game Boy with a guts of an old Nintendo handheld, a CNC machine and, of course, some wood. You made me create a wooden Game Boy shell. Yes, you made me do it. After I got myself a CNC machine a while back...

Handmade fonts are a testament to the artistry and personal touch that can be infused into typography crafted by hand, capturing the imperfections.

From Muga silk and leavers lace. To Japanese denim and vicuña wool. We unraveled the stories behind the world's most expensive fabrics and textiles.

 Daffodils are the cheeriest spring flowers. A bunch of tightly furled buds came home with me from the grocery store this week and are gradually opening inside the house. Outside, daffodils have a month or so to go before blooming. I finish...

For your regular dose of inspiring handicraft, here is a Korean pottery using an embossing technique on a style of traditional pottery known as buncheon ware (characterized by a coating of white slip (ceramics), carved decorative designs, and usually...