Craft Guides - contents

Running your craft business
Craft Insurance

Insurance for crafts people, organisers, venues and your vehicles

Craft Public Liability Insurance

What it is, levels of cover, what it costs, where you can get it and reducing risk.

Business Banking

Online payments, cheques, where to start, invest in yourself, credit cards, tax accounts, bank accounts and where to bank.

Running a Craft Business

Product choice, pricing, marketing, where to sell and insurance.

Art and Design Principles

Balance, Colour, Contrast, Dominance, Graduation, Harmony and Unity.

Selling at a Craft Fair

Maximise your potential for sales, Follow on sales, Keep a track of profit, Location, Craft Kits and Your next steps.

Sign Posting

Staying within the law and temporary directional signs.


Paper crafts
Card Making

Common Card Sizes, Common Envelope Sizes, Choosing your card blank, Card problems, Card Making tips, Selling your cards and Glossary .

Making Paper
Scrapbooking

Organisation, Planning, Scrapbook Album, Pages, Storage, Scrapbook crafts people and some Project ideas .


Woodcrafts
Bodging

Guide to bodging, Origin of the name bodger and The Pole Lathe .

Coopering

Traditional cask capacities, Why use wood, Wood crafts people, Coopering terms and Cooper's tools .

Peg Making

Split Pegs and Tent Pegs .

Rake Making

Making the tines, the head and the stail .

Woodturning

Seasoning, Tools of the trade, Treadle Lathe, Turning a bowl, Environment and Wood crafts people .

Textiles
Crochet

Slip stitch, Half Treble, Double treble and Crochet craft people.

Fabric Printing

Suitable materials for fabric printing, Wash fabric, Iron fabric, A rubber stamp, Applying the colour to the fabric and Heating the print.

Knitting

Casting On, First Knit Row nd Casting Off .

Making pom-poms

What you will need, The pom-pom template, Getting started, Cutting the wool from the template, Securing the wool, Remove the templates and Trim your pom-pom .

Quilting

Quiltmaking Supplies and A quilt consists of three layers .

Sewing

Basic Supplies, Sewing crafts people, Hand Stitches, Backstitch, Slip stitch, Running stitch and Finishing off .


Home craft
Candle Making
Handmade soap

Equipment that you will need, Perfume and colour, Homemade lye, Lye testing and Why make soap by hand .


Others
Preserving Flowers
Mosaics

Safety Precautions, Background, House Number, Mosaic pieces, Base board, Attaching the mosaic tiles, Grouting, Finishing off and Other Projects .

Basketry

The Willow, Soaking the Willow, Creating coloured willow, Baskets to make from wicker, Basketry tools, Techniques and What killed the craft .

Ceramics

Pinch, Coil, Slab, Potters Wheel and Handles .

Vegetable Dyes

Things your will need, Dye the Wool, Broom flowers to make yellow and Lichen to make various colours .

Etching Glass

Clean the glass, Apply the etching cream, Finishing off, Acid formation, Alternative techniques and Crafts people that work with Glass .

Birthstones

Birthstones, Sign, Dates, Stone, Stones for a Mother or Grandmother and A history of birthstones .


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