Handmade Portraits: 1AEON
MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes [Music by The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Jukeboxer, The Fucking Champs & The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight] This article was originally published on May 13, 2008. We are reviving it as part of the Best of the Storque series. Enjoy! Gabe Molnar of 1AEON says his designs …
Threadbanger How-to: Screenprinting with Betterthanjam (& Matt on the Etsy Shopping Network!)
This week's edition of Threadbanger features a visit to betterthanjam's studio to learn some awesome screenprinting tips and tricks. Also, check out Matt as he shares some Etsy Finds on the Etsy Threadbanger Shopping Network! You don't want to miss these deals! We're looking forward to collaborating more …
Handmade Weddings: Stitch Lounge
The Handmade Wedding Series is proud to introduce the co-founders of Stitch Lounge (www.stitchlounge.com) in San Francisco, the country’s first urban sewing lounge (on Etsy they are at stitchlounge.etsy.com), and authors of Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture (Taunton …
Handmade Weddings: Invitation Options with Moontreepress
We invited Rebecca from Moontreepress to contribute a piece to this Handmade Wedding Series. Last year Rebecca guest-blogged for the design*sponge wedding series (see Grace from design*sponge's post on the Storque) and we were very impressed. Rebecca runs a custom letterpress shop in DUMBO, Brooklyn …
Etsy Find: Love Letters
When was the last time you sat down, picked up a pen, and scrawled out a love letter in your best (or worst) handwriting? As a lover of love letters and all handwritten correspondance, I was instantly attracted to this screenprinted Messenger Card Set created by MoxieMadness. I love writing letters …
Etsy How-to: Screenprinting and You
We made this video how-to for the pop-up community space we participated in with Good Magazine over the holidays. It's a fun how-to that introduces you to the art and science of screenprinting. Matt and Pete are completely charming in it, so we're posting it here too!See another video how-to on …
Etsy Finds: Creepy Spider Shirt
So, typically, when I think of Etsy, or when talking with my friends about Etsy, we talk about "The Cute." And how so very full of "The Cute" Etsy is. But with it being so close to Halloween, I thought maybe an Etsy Find that wasn't totally cute would be in order, and did something I'd never done before: I searched for "creepy …
Open Studio Tours: MaryInk
As I cruised down a green street in East Nashville looking for maryink’s studio, I spotted the Etsy stickers adorning the bumpers of their cars and I knew I was in the right place. It was like a beacon drawing me into the sunny space where the screenprinted magic of maryink happens. Mary Helt and Chris Sittel …
Etsy Finds: Toilet Art
A giant decal of a ten-speed. For your toilet. Danielle found this today in Vital's shop, at which point I deemed it the greatest thing on Etsy I never knew I needed. Vital's shop also has some super choice screenprinted tshirts with enormous graphics on them. My favorites are the camera ones: Holga, Hasselblad …
