What is it about this craft that has so many addicted? Start with this article if you’re keen to learn.
Melissa Frances’ experience with breast cancer moved her to help others, using, surprisingly enough, scrapbooking.
This latest revival is less about the make, do and mend attitude to knitting, and more about making a statement of individuality.
With skills in sewing, knitting and crocheting and a keen eye for textiles, Belinda Andresson has cushions covered.
When it comes to operating their market stall, Jo Dunsmuir and Pia McDowell believe two heads are better than one.
When Jodie Carleton started making a dress from fabric ends, she didn’t realise exactly how many metres of it she would need.
Mildly Wild: The World of Guerrilla Crafts
Meet the radical crafters, a growing subculture whose mischievous, subversive creations are designed to shock, amuse and improve the world around them.
When Nienke de Haan tried her hand at making soft toys she had no idea she’d soon be selling them online to shoppers all over the world.
Hunting for the perfect button? Wanting some special letterpress stationery? Then go straight to the Nicholas Building in Melbourne’s CBD.
Trash, Treasure & Tractor Home
This Melbourne importer proves one man’s trash is another’s ingenious handmade treasure.
The humble craft of crocheting is at the forefront of saving Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
As any designer will tell you, one of the hardest aspects of giving your artistic ability an audience is getting that first, all-important break.
The stampeding horses, peacock feathers, Japanese floral, exotic birds, geometrics…there are many of Florence Broadhurst’s designs to admire.
Chris Natrop is a Los Angeles artist who ‘draws’ with a knife. He cuts paper to shreds and in doing so, creates art.
Portrait of a Creative Spirit in Fiskars, Finland.
Timeless Textiles ignore the trends
Julie Paterson’s organic Surry Hills store stocks eco-friendly, classic cloths, designed to last through the ages with both style and quality.
Amy Butler’s fresh designs are pure Midwest modern, yet they speak to sewers all over the world.
One of the world’s greatest trendsetters, Diana Vreeland can be remembered for her outlandish quotes, her innate sense of style and her influential years at the helm of US Vogue magazine.
