Craft Business
Craft Business Bookkeeping With One Simple Spreadsheet
You sold forty pieces at the spring fair, a dozen more online, and somehow you cannot say whether the year made money.
You smooth a magazine scrap onto the page, it looks flat for ten seconds, and then a row of little ridges creeps across it as the glue soaks in.
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Craft Business
You sold forty pieces at the spring fair, a dozen more online, and somehow you cannot say whether the year made money.
Woodworking
You glued up a tabletop that was dead flat on Saturday, and by the following month it had cupped, a joint had opened or a...
Upcycling
The chairs are solid, the frames are fine, but the seats are stained, flat and covered in a fabric that went out of style...
Tools and Workspace
Your tools live in a drawer, and every project starts with five minutes of digging for the small square or the right awl.
Sewing and Textiles
New jeans that are 5 cm too long either drag on the ground or get rolled into a bulky cuff.
Paper and Mixed Media
You want to turn a stack of folded paper into a real booklet, but stapling it feels cheap and full bookbinding looks like a...
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Archive
Three makers who work with their hands before they write about it: one builds furniture and teaches basic joinery, one sews and mends for a small alterations clientele, and one turns salvaged materials into sellable pieces at weekend markets. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not actually made.