Category — Crafts

Now, this is just amazing. Who knows whether this artist/craftsman has specialist tools to craft these designs on an eggshell, but the skill and creativity is obvious from the shells themselves.

How are these designs marked out so geometrically accurate? Or is this just the artistic skill in process?

Even more baffling, how are the holes and negative spaces punched out without breaking the already fragile shells? Are they treated somehow?

And I wonder whether countless hours of intense, detailed work has often been destroyed whilst this artist has been “learning” the trade, by a careless slip, or a little too much pressure.

I guess when a craft is intriguing and baffling to understand the “how”, it just makes it all the more interesting and admirable.

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Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich’s Ludiculous Skytop Zeppelin Hat is a sky-blue, cloud-decorated leatherette top-hat, featuring a miniature zeppelin on its brim.

I’d love to see someone wearing this to Ascot! On a traditional day for hat wearing, this is sure to stand out for its quirkiness - well, I think it would look great amongst the supposedly more refined designs.

As a symbol for old victorian cool, you probably can’t get better than a zeppelin, in my opinion. Why did someone have to invent more efficient, faster forms of air transport like planes?!?

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Brooklyn artist Emily Barletta has crocheted a number of pieces, for a series called My Biology, that takes inspiration from cells, fibers, veins as well as other microscopic biological structures.

Aside from the quirky subject matter for I suppose, a usually modest craft, these pieces caught my eye for the way the crochet technique really seems to create an aesthetic that matches up with organic structural forms that Emily creates.

See more on Emily’s website

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