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CANDLE MAKING |
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Candle and Soap Making
Instructions and recipes for candles, soaps, lotions and similar items.
Candle Mart Candle
tips.
How To Make Gel Candles
Book on creating and marketing gel candles.
The Melting Pot
Info on candle making processes.
Pioneer Thinking
Complete instructions on candle making. |
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SOAP MAKING |
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Abigail's Country Craft Soap Making Basic
tips and recipes for making soap.
Candle
and Soap Making Instructions and recipes for candles, soaps, lotions and similar
items.
Cole Brothers Soap
Instructions for making & marketing decorative soap. Includes 250 recipes.
Cranberry Lane Soap
Instructions Step by step soap making instructions. Cold process method in detail.
The Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild,
Inc. Professional trade organization for makers of handcrafted soap and body care
products, networking, resources, newsletter.
Homemade Soap/Kathy Miller
Recipes, info and links.
Pioneer Thinking
Instuctions for creating homemade fragrant soaps. Recipes using vegetable oils, herbs,
beeswax, etc.
Sabrina's Soapmaker's Resources
Resources and recipes for soap makers.
Soapnuts Faq Library Learn
how to make soap, lotions, natural body products. Recipes, facts, help and chat room.
Symphony Scents & Supplies
Quality, affordable fragrance oils that have been soap tested. No minimum order required. |
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HOME BREWING |
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The
Real Beer Page Everything you could ever want to know about beer, brewpubs,
microbreweries, home brewing, and the beer industry. Over 150,000 pages about beer,
searchable brewery and pub databases.
Beer, Cocktails & Wine at About.com
Lots of articles & resources.
Bathtub Brewers
Home brewing Site Dedicated to Connecting Home brewers and Beer Lovers Worldwide by ICQ,
Webring, Chat, Links, and More.
Black and White
Brewery Home brew information, making equipment for home brew, locating ingredients,
full mash brewer.
Bodensatz Brewing Tons of
information for beginners and established home brewers.
Glenn Tinseth's Hop Page
Comprehensive collection of hop information.
The Homebrew
Digest Primer Discussion group for home brewing. Archive search. Registration
Required.
Homebrew Research Page
Learn To Homebrew Online. Learn to use web resources to get answers to your home brewing
questions. Includes Homebrew FAQ's, Usenet and BBS Tutorials and many other resources.
I Want My Beer Supplier for
Home Beer Brewers, including equipment, ingredients, and beer brewing kits. No info on
this site, strictly the equipment for purchase online.
Marijuana
In Beer An article on brewing with marijuana
Medieval/Renaissance
Brewing Homepage Information about Medieval and Renaissance brewing. Books, articles,
mailing lists, bibliography.
The Mr Beer
Discussion Page On-line discussion about the Mr Beer homebrew kits and how to
"Brew Better Beer."
rec.crafts.brewing List
of FAQs posted to rec.crafts.brewing, about home brewing.
Spencer's Beer Page Recipes and
general information.
Weasel Breweries Home
brewing techniques, recipes, labels from the Fraternal Order of Brewers Minor.
Yeasts from
Bottle Conditioned Beers Lists which bottled beers have live and useful yeasts in
them, and characteristics of each yeast. |
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HOME BREWING &
WINEMAKING |
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Absolute Authority on Wine Making
A collection of winemaking links.
The Home Wine
Maker Winemaking tips newsletter.
Home Winemaker's Info Page
An online book offering tips and instructions for the beginning to intermediate winemaker.
Download formats: Word, PDF, HTML.
UC Davis
Department of Viticulture & Enology - US Academic study of winemaking from the
University of California, Davis.
The Winemaking Home Page
Tips for both beginning and advanced home winemakers. |
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HOME BREWING &
WINEMAKING GUIDES |
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Amateur Home Winemakers Resource
Page Recipes and links to home-winemaking resources. Q&A section & list of
wine-related ICQs.
Anthony Hawkins' Gigantic
Grape Glossary Glossary of hundreds of grape varieties, vintage charts and wine
tasting terminology.
UC
Davis Viticulture & Enology URLs A list of academic, scientific and some
general wine-related links. |
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BREWING MEAD |
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The Bee's Lees Collection of
recipes for making mead.
Mead FAQ Getting
started: Basic information about mead and mead making for the beginner.
Mead Hall Information and
resources for brewers of mead. |
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HOME BREW RECIPES |
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The Cats Meow 3 Large home
brewing recipe archive. Download in .PDF format.
Beer Design Toolbox Tools to use
for creating new beer recipes. Recipe calculator, recipe database.
Eric's Brew
Page Buy, sell, trade, and steal home brewing recipes.
Mr. Goodbeer The Virtual Beer
Technician offers homebrew troubleshooting and repair advice.
Skotrats Recipe Archives
Archive of recipes categorized by style and type. |
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HOME BREWING PUBLICATIONS
& PERIODICALS |
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Ale
Street News "Brewspaper" covering the East Coast beer scene.
All About Beer Magazine OnLine
American beer magazine with online articles about beer, brewing beer, and beer news.
Brewing Techniques Online
Archives from the Award-winning magazine. A great resource for professional and
home brewers.
Brew Your Own, The How-To Homebrew Beer
Magazine Brew Your Own is a how-to homebrew beer magazine for the beginner to the
all-grain expert.
Pint
Pleasures: A Beer Page A Seattleite's monthly review of pubs and beer in the UK.
Yankee Brew News New
England's "Beer News" Beeriodical. |
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SEWING |
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Bella Online - Sewing A site
devoted to all aspects of sewing, from beginners to advanced sewer. Links to notions,
patterns and more.
Designs4Dolls Resources for
owners of home embroidery machines. Sewing for dolls.
The Fashion Sewing Group
Current fashion and sewing newsletter. Mail order fabric and notions. Sewing
school/national seminars.
Home Sewing Association Trade
organization which encourages all facets of home sewing.
Lady
Renee's Sewing Room Heirloom sewing, sewing humor, links, projects, resources.
McCall's Patterns Online! McCall's
Patterns Online Web site Fashions, costumes, crafts, etc.
Sew 'N' Sew Sewing
information, online classes, patterns and newsletter.
A Sewing Place
Club for sewing enthusiasts from all over the world.
SewMommy's Sewing
Tip Exchange A "sewing tips exchange. Take a sewing tip or leave a sewing tip.
Updated weekly with a new "Tip of the Week".
Underwire and Bra FAQs
Scroll almost to the bottom of the page to get to the links to the actual information. |
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SEWING DIRECTORIES |
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Lily Abello's Sewing Resource Guide Links
for anything sewable.
Ken's Sewin' and Surfin' Page
Sewing and embroidery related pages and newsgroups. Utilities for use with Pfaff Creative
Designer for Windows. Huge link collection. |
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UPHOLSTERING |
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Upholster
Step-by-step instructions on upholstering furniture
Piano Bench
Upholstering Brief instructions on how to upholster a wooden piano bench, found within
this commercial site.
Re-upholstering
Miata Seats How to reupholster Miata seats with leather covering.
Tying Coil Springs
Illustrated instructions on how to fix springs in upholstered furniture. |
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FURNITURE REFINISHING |
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Finishing Touch Furniture Tip Archive
An archive of articles, including how to remove waxy build-up, how to remove water spots,
removing dark stains, determining if the piece is really solid wood.
Furniture Refinishing Tips
Free tips and information on how to restore, refinish, clean, or paint, wooden indoor
patio and wicker furniture.
Furniture
Articles A large collection of articles written by people in the furniture restoration
and conservation field. Articles cover various kinds of finishes, refinishing tips on
furniture as well as pianos and cabinets. |
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SOLDERING & WELDING |
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AFSCME Health and Safety Fact Sheet - Welding
Hazards Description and instructions of welding hazards.
The Basic
Soldering Guide Basic soldering techniques with photos. By Alan Winstanley
Cole Sonafrank's Remarks
on Lead-Free Stained Glass Soldering Cole Sonafrank's Remarks on Lead Free stained
glass soldering using the foil method.
Cole Sonafrank's
Soldering Tips Plus links to resources for stained glass and mosaics.
Electronic
Construction Tutorial Part 1 - Tools and Soldering Part of a larger tutorial on
building ham radio equipment, this page gives the basics of soldering.
Electronics Tips: Soldering
Brief, illustrated tips page from a commercial site.
Help
on Soldering Tips from the Undergraduate laboratory, Electrical Engineering Dept.,
University of Pennsylvania.
Introduction to
Soldering What it is and how to do it.
Music
Technology Handouts: Soldering Notes on how to solder directed to sound engineers and
music technologists.
Sculptural
Art Railings - Silver Soldering Metals How to "silver solder" copper to
steel to create cattails for sculptural art railings Color Illustrations.
Soldering Process
Quick course in soldering basics.
Soldering
Setup - Jewelry Making What you need to setup for soldering. from About.com.
Welding
Encarta Encyclopedia search results for welding. |
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