Crafts & DIY
340 sites
https://en.origami-club.com/animal/index.html
A collection of origami instructions focused on animal designs, offering step-by-step paper folding guides for kids and beginners. The site features visual diagrams and tutorials for creating a variety of animals through the traditional Japanese art of origami.
https://insqueeration.neocities.org/
Drew's self-described 'cute Internet teashop' archives recipes, handmade projects, and web resources, with a particular love of baking desserts. The site has a warm, personal feel with a blog component and a strong old-web indie aesthetic.
https://techknitting.blogspot.com/
TECHknitting is a deeply technical knitting blog by TECHknitter, running since 2006 and covering advanced techniques like double knitting, selvedge edges, color patterns, and seaming methods with detailed diagrams and close-up photography. The site offers a searchable subject index and chronological archive, making it an exceptional reference for knitters seeking to elevate handmade work through precise, well-explained technique guides.
http://starquilts.com/index.php
Polly's Quilts showcases authentic Native American star quilts handcrafted by Polly, a member of the Hidatsa and Arikara peoples from the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The site features a gallery of colorful, handmade quilts rooted in Northern Plains tradition, along with the story of how Polly learned her craft from her mother in 1971.
https://shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/TW01/TW01.htm
Shelagh Lewins provides a thorough beginner's guide to tablet weaving, an ancient textile craft used to create decorative bands and straps dating back to the Bronze Age. Complete with diagrams, threading instructions, pattern samples, and a UK yarn supplier directory, this page is a practical starting point for anyone curious about this historical technique.
https://ribo.zone/
Ribo.zone is a whimsically framed personal site styled as a laboratory, where the creator shares an eclectic mix of interests including microscopy, plant systematics, clay sculpting, drawings, and game fan pages. The site features its own blog, a collaborative plant grid for exploring plant taxonomy, and ongoing fan content for games like Xenogears, making it a genuinely curious and densely linked personal web space.
https://moonlight.computer/
Moonlight computer is a cheerful, intentionally messy personal site celebrating the old web spirit, with sections covering recipes, a reading log, crafts, and DIY interests. The creator embraces imperfection and self-expression, listing interests like coffee, stationery, cats, and pixels while inviting visitors to join in bringing back the personal web.
https://rickswoodshopcreations.com/
Rick's Woodshop Creations is a sprawling woodworking resource built by hobbyist Rick, featuring a searchable index of 34,000+ articles from 38 woodworking and DIY magazines, thousands of project plan links, and a species index with 16,000+ wood references. Visitors will also find curated links to over 200 woodworking sites, tool buying guides, and documentation of Rick's own shop projects.
http://domesticat.net/
Amy Qualls, known online as domesticat, documents her quilting projects in rich detail, sharing patterns, timelines, photos, and the stories behind each finished piece. The archive spans years of completed quilts alongside occasional posts on tech industry life, making it a warm and personal look at a dedicated fiber artist.
https://northfolk.org.uk/ganseys/shering.html
The Northfolk Project's gansey section is a meticulous catalog of traditional Norfolk fishermen's knitting patterns, focusing on the distinctive styles found in Sheringham and other coastal towns. Featuring 129 photographs of historical ganseys alongside notes on stitch counts, regional influences, and individual knitters, this is an invaluable reference for anyone researching British folk textile history.