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Quotes About Handmade

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
~ Jonathan Ive
Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.
~ Narendra Modi
Now clip the unwanted parts of your wire, and allow about 1.5 inches of wire to each of the sides to finish the ring with.
~ Janice Love
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?
~ Rhiannon Giddens
I hate homemade sweaters.
~ Mo Rocca
I'm a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that's my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, and it doesn't feel like a swiftly produced, whole seeky-eyed event.
~ Matthew Gray Gubler
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
knit and purl These stitches are the fundamentals of knitting and are the basis of every garment. The knit stitch is a series of flat, vertical loops that produces a knitted fabric face and the purl stitch is its reverse. One side is smooth, the other bumpy. Knit is what you show the world; purl is the soft, nubbly underside you keep close to the skin.
~ Kate Jacobs
woven basket he was
~ Elizabeth Peters
De fapt, chiar ne comportam ca niÈ™te domniÈ™oare. Aruncam pietrele înf??urate în s?culeÈ›i de pânz? pe care îi confecÈ›ionasem special cu mâinile noastre pentru a pune pietrele în ei. AÈ™a eram de domniÈ™oare.
~ Ali Smith
Once you've used soap you made by hand with contemporary techniques, there is no going back to store-bought.
~ Alicia Grosso
I make a lot of my own clothes. I don't like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.
~ Christina Milian
I actually sewed my own wedding dress and I sewed my flower girl dresses.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
~ Georgina Chapman
There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.
~ Andrew Bird
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
~ Derek Bailey
Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.
~ David Linley
I like arts and crafts.
~ Penny Marshall
I love arts and crafts.
~ Allison Janney
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
~ Beatrice Wood
It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.
~ Marco Zanini
There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.
~ Chad Hurley
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration
~ Eric Hoffer