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Topic: handmade
Hand cranked mechanical singing birds by Bliss Kolb
This hand-cranked mechanical bird sings from a small leather bellows that whistles in two notes. A cam presses a lever that changes the pitch while other cams pull on strings that animate the bird's six movements as i...
Most Satisfying Video of Pop-Up Cards designed by Peter Dahmen
Germany-based paper engineer Peter Dahmen designs and builds intricate paper structures and pop-up cards. Titled Most Satisfying Video of Pop-Up Cards, the video above showcases how Dahmen's personal and commercial wo...
How pinball machines are made from start to finish at Stern Pinball
The A.V. Club took a trip to Chicagoland’s Stern Pinball, the “oldest and largest designer and manufacturer of arcade-quality pinball games on the planet,” according to its website. In the video above, we follow the p...
Sculpting Freddie Mercury
Canada-based Brazilian sculptor and teacher Juliana Lepine sculpts human likenesses with polymer clay. In the video above, she recreates Freddie Mercury, the lead vocalist of British rock band Queen, laying the clay o...
How Kanazawa gold leaf is made
Far too delicate to touch with fingertips—just one ten-thousandth of a millimeter thick—gold leaf foil is an extremely delicate, almost transparent material. It requires a humid climate, pure water for the manufacturi...
Marbles – The Magic of Making
How do you get different colors to twist and twirl inside of a glass marble? In this video from The Magic of Making, a series of short films for kids created in partnership with BBC Worldwide, we get a peek at how a g...
The figurative sculptures of a 12-year-old found objects artist
Twelve year old artist Callum Donovan-Grujicich creates figurative sculptures from a clay mix, fabrics, and objects that he's found near his home in Whitby, Ontario. In this video from CBC Arts, titled You might find ...
Sandals – Primitive Technology
If you find yourself in the bush (or your back yard) without any footwear and your feet need some primitive protection from the rough terrain, try making your own sandals from scratch. Primitive Technology's anonymous...
Haruki Nakamura’s surprising paper karakuri animals
Japanese paper crafter Haruki Nakamura designs mechanical paper karakuri-style animals that peek and pop in surprising ways. Karakuri, meaning 'trick' or 'mechanism', are mechanical automata pieces that were first mad...
The Bulb Factory: How vintage filament bulbs are made by hand
Jazzy music plus light bulbs made by hand! This promotional video from William & Watson in London, England demonstrates how their vintage filament bulbs are put together and tested. From Wikipedia: An incandescent...
Weaving a charpai bed
In just seven minutes, a man expertly weaves a charpai bed, also known as a charpoy, charpaya, or manji-style bed, around a metal bed frame. The video, uploaded by chintu arya, shows the creation of a simple diagonal ...
Yuasa Town: The Birthplace of Soy Sauce
Yuasa, a small coastal town in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is a fishing port and the producer of one of Japan’s most well known mandarin oranges, the Arida mikan. But a stroll through the traditional streets, includin...
Bequeath These Seeds, a blooming brass wire kinetic sculpture
Brass wire and liquid plastic flutter open and close like flowers in time lapse, driven by motorized mechanisms within the wooden scaffolding below. Bequeath These Seeds was created by kinetic sculptor Casey Curran fo...
Termite clay kiln & pottery – Primitive Technology
If you lived in Far North Queensland, Australia before modern technologies were invented, how might you make a clay kiln and pottery from a termite mound? Primitive Technology takes on the challenge in the video above...
Throwing a simple pottery salt pot on the wheel
From Ingleton Pottery, watch this quick and simple demonstration of how a pottery salt cellar or pot can be created on a potter's wheel. The piece consists of a closed round vase shape that's given a large side hole f...
Building a ‘bed shed’ sleeping shelter – Primitive Technology
Bundles of long dry grasses thatch the roof of this elevated sleeping shelter. The bed itself is woven from lawyer cane and covered with a woven bark mat. It's all held up with wooden posts tied with vines. Primitiv...
Barnaby Dixon’s Raptor Puppet
Puppeteer Barnaby Dixon designs highly detailed finger puppets like the one above: a rather adorable raptor puppet. Watch as his fingers control the feet while other hinges, levers, and mechanisms help make the puppet...
Two professors sculpt each other in less than ten minutes
Watch in real time as Professor Cao Chang Xu of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and Professor Sarath Chandrajeewa of Sri Lanka's University of Visual and Performing Arts go head to head in a friendly fac...