Tags
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
Taking something that would be otherwise thrown away and using it to make something beautiful. This tag is a better partner with others like clothing.
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For questions about the use of oil pastels, works made using oil pastels in part or whole, and general questions about oil pastels.
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For questions regarding the use and maintenance of chalk pastels and works made using chalk pastels. You can ask after techniques, corrections, the combination with other materials, preservation, and …
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For questions about working with fiber from all sources (animal, plant, and synthetic) in its raw form or finished products (like yarn), as well as the crafts that use these fibers. Questions specific…
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Paper cutting or papercutting refers to the art of cutting paper into designs, and not just the act of cutting paper for any purpose. A variety of papers and tools, such as craft knives, are used to …
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For questions involving creation, modification, or repairing of pottery. Pottery includes the process of forming objects with clay or other ceramic materials, and the products of this process.
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For questions about the creation, uses, cutting, gluing of different types of foam. Foam can be floral foam, Styrofoam, spray foams and more. If the question is about a specific foam, such as Styrofoa…
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For questions about the usage of all varieties of varnish, including lacquer and shellac. If possible, also tag what's being varnished, such as paint or wood.
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For questions regarding creating patterns, most often associated with sewn apparel.
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For questions about constructing linear perspectives and using perspective techniques.
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For questions concerning the use, selection, cleaning, or handling of all kinds of natural stones, including gemstones. For the refining of stones, please use the [lapidary] tag.
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For questions about modeling clay made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) that is malleable until baked to harden. Popular brands include Sculpey and Kato
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For questions concerning blending techniques or any method that allows for gradual transitions between hues, values, and/or color intensities. Always use this tag in combination with the tag for the m…
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Cutting, shaping, setting, polishing, or otherwise working with stones, gems, glass, or other minerals.
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For questions regarding the use and maintenance of markers. You can ask after techniques, mixing of colours, corrections, the combination with other materials, and more.
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A high-temperature oven used to dry, harden and glaze clay and ceramics. They can also be used in smelting and brickworks.
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Creating fabric, mats, or baskets by interlacing two sets of thread, fabric, or other material.
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to be used for questions about tying knots in or between string or rope, or other strands of material
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For questions specifically about graphite as an isolated medium, or its material properties.
For questions involving the use of graphite pencils, use the [pencil] tag.
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For inquiring about changing, adapting, and improving tools used during projects.
Please provide details on the tool's current condition/situation and the intended result.
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For tagging questions that concern a preparatory step, i.e. an action that is in itself not the goal of a project, but helps to facilitate consequential steps of a creative project. This includes task…
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For questions about the use, and normal end-user care, of small, computer-controlled cutting machines that are often used in a hand-crafting workflow. Includes machines incorporating various cutting m…
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For questions about the use, properties, preparation, mixing, protection, maintenance, curing, and other aspects of any type of concrete.
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For questions about either the act of using a sharp tool to modify wood by cutting away excess material, or the wooden object produced that way.
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Questions about working with felt, for both the material itself and tools or products to use with it.
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For questions about preparing the work surface on which one is about to perform artwork on, e.g. cleaning an adhesive label off a jar that is to be painted.
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Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. Use this tag if your question is about techniques,…
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For questions concerning color theory, that is any methodical approach used to structure the colors. For any practical question, like the process of applying color to works, use the respective medium …
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Dyeing is the process of adding colours to a material "by soaking it in a solution impregnated with a dye". Use this tag for questions about the process, or its possibilities concerning the colouring …
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Using a knife or other sharp tools to modify objects, often for decoration purposes, by cutting away excess material. This can include certain forms of or steps taken during sculpting. For questions a…
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Use when your question is about the creation of a specific material.
Use in combination with the tag for the target material or the medium it is most closely associated with.
Please provide a detail…
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