#craft materials

[star-sstruck]

Guys what's some good but like.. Affordable.. Ish.. Faux fur brands

[junkologistsgoods]

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[horatiosroom]

I'm trying to de-stash, so I've made a bunch of deco kits! They'd be great for decoden, resin, and other crafts, and are an easy way to get started if you’re new and haven’t built up a collection of embellishments yet. You can get them from my etsy shop. Thanks for looking!

[peri-phonics]

i REALLY want to make a song chord but i have zero craft making skills 😭

like i kindve know in theory what you do, you just get string or something and put beads on it, so asking “how” is kindve vague and doesn’t get the answers i really need

i guess this is just a general ask for advice on the subject? i’d really love to have song chord and just other na’vi inspired crafts tbh 😔 video links even would be v nice! and avatar/navi mutuals too:)

[lailoken]

Ars Metallorum:

On the Sorcerous Faculties of Metals

Within the scheme of the occultic arts, Crystals are, and have long been, a central focus of materia magica. While there is a legitimate historical precedent behind the magical associations that many Crystals bear, these traditional associations have become willfully misconstrued and commercially co-opted over time, resulting in the New Age crystal racket that many of us have come to know. As such, not only has the crystal industry become an ethical and environmental nightmare, but what slim crystal lore that we have maintained over time has become largely conflated with nebulous new-age quackery. And what's more, much of the other occultic wisdom regarding magical associations that we've accrued over generations has been supplanted and ignored. One realm of this wisdom, which I think is especially underrated by many groups, is that of metals and their sorcerous capacities.

While I realize there are certain esoteric traditions and paradigms that do speak on metal (such as correspondences in planetary magic, or folk-magic involving iron,) the things I share here are purely my own personal experiences regarding a selection of metals as utilized within the Wending Way, based on my years of experimentation and notes I combed over For the sake of conciseness and clarity, I eschew Alloys in these references and speak only on Elemental Metals.

Copper: A metal closely associated with the ancestors—being the first metal worked by human hands—and well suited to spectral evocation in general—likely connected with its high capcity for conduction. As such, Copper is a particularly good metal where works of Thanaturgy and Necromancy are involved.

Aluminum: A metal that can be used to strengthen and empower workings of mantic perception.

Zinc: A metal associated with the healing arts and best suited to workings of such a nature.

Titanium: A metal of great protective virtue, well suited to workings of magical defense.

Tin: A metal associated with Fortune, and best suited amongst the common metals for working with the Gloaming Folk.

Lead: A metal with virtues potently predisposed to malefic workings of Affliction.

Manganese: A metal possessing of excisive virtues, well suited to acts of banishing and expulsion.

Nickel: A metal well suited to workings of influence and persuasion.

Lithium: A metal best used in workings meant to promote balance and equilibrium.

Bismuth: A metal of illusory virtue, utilized best in Glamours and Heles, or similar rites of illusion/concealment.

Silver: A chthonic metal bearing sacred significance to the Bone Mother, in particular, and strongly associated with her offerings and rites.

Gold: A zoetic metal bearing sacred significance to the Wilding King, in particular, and strongly associated with his offerings and rites.

Mercury: A transmutative metal bearing sacred significance to the Draconic Angel, in particular, and strongly associated with their offerings and rites. While not a material to be used with any degree of frequency, it may be utilized in works of great transformation on desperate occasions.

Iron: A metal powerfully suited to the absorption, storage, and/or redirection of all magics in general, which may serve to anchor or empower a wide variety of workings, accordingly. While Iron in its smelted form may be considered profane to certain denizens of the of the Otherworld, its raw forms are sacred to the Spider and its Gloaming progeny. Meteoric iron, in particular, represents the holiest and most potent form of the metal.

[alma-art]

Here is another mending project of mine

As you can see in the picture bellow, that my exercise book is quite damaged, due to it's bad quality and not because I used it too much.

Since I have already written important notes in it, and it still has many empty pages left I didn't wanted to just trow it out, buy a new one and then copy the notes into the new one.

So instead I have mended it (even if it's such a shame that a not even cheap notebook became damaged in such a short time, because of the thin materials.)

For the mending I used a thick and strong thread and a sturdy needle.

Unfortunately my sewing still doesn't solve the problem of the thin cover paper. And the idea of strengthening the material with a duct tape or another layer of glued thick paper only came to my mind when i have already finished it.

To sum up, with this mending I have prevented the cover from further tearing up. So I can use the notebook for this semester too, which is a relief for me because my notes will be in one book. Furthermore I don't have to throw out otherwise empty notebook.

[dmorganillustration]

What’s up with craft store feathers?

If you’ve ever made a seasonal kid’s craft, greeted garishly outfitted trick-or-treaters, or worn a feather boa, chances are that you’ve enc