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CANDLE MAKING
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Candle and Soap Making
Instructions and recipes for candles, soaps, lotions and similar items.
The Candle Maker's Companion Candle
instruction, candle board, crafts, discussion.
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. |
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.
First Love Handmade Soap Soap information,
instructions and recipes.
Green Cottage Soap Recipes Soap
recipes, instructions, and supplies
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.
Soap scents by The Scent Shack Supplies:
Quality, affordable fragrance oils that have been soap tested. No minimum order required.
Soapmaking: soap recipes and
directions Recipes & instructions for making bar soap at home.
Soapnuts Faq Library Learn how to
make soap, lotions, natural body products. Recipes, facts, help and chat room.
The Soapourri Recipes for the soap maker. |
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.
Alan and Melissa's Homebrew Page
Information for beginners and established home brewers.
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.
Brew it Yourself Home brewing,
British style. Includes the complete magazine archives for 'Brewers Contact' the magazine
of the Craft Brewing Association, extensive tasting notes of the Worlds best and worst
bottled beers and lots more.
Brewery Lane - Home Brewing Experts Supplies and
information for serious wine and beer makers. Online shopping available.
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.
Kraeusen's All-Grain Brewing Page A
tutorial in the basics of all-grain brewing. Instructions for brewing beer from malted
barley, hops, water, and yeast.
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."
The Peavine Winds Brewery A full mash, all
grain brewery that makes several top quality homebrews. (Reno, Nevada, USA)
rec.crafts.brewing List of FAQs posted
to rec.crafts.brewing, about home brewing.
Spencer's Beer Page Recipes and general
information.
TRASH X homebrew competition
Homebrew competition sponsored by the Three Rivers Alliance of Serious Home brewers.
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. |
HOME BREWING & WINEMAKING
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Absolute
Authority on Wine Making A collection of winemaking links.
ATI S.R.L Soft Press pneumatic wine
press manufacturer. This wine press features a central elastic membrane. Italian site.
This link in English.
Cornerstone Certified Vineyard Vineyard
consulting, certified vines, vine cuttings and grapes.
Enology and Grape Chemistry Group of Virginia
State University Grape growing, wine making, roster of local, regional and national
events.
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.
Spagnol's Winemaking
Handouts Recipes, hints and instructions, and other winemaking resources.
UC Davis Department of
Viticulture & Enology - US Academic study of winemaking from the University of
California, Davis.
WebiWine French wineries from Burgundy and Alsace.
Links to more wine sites.
The Winemaking Home Page Tips for both
beginning and advanced home winemakers. |
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.
Enology Database Catalog of web resources
related to wine and winemaking.
Home Winemaking
Links List of links to winemaking clubs, home winemakers' personal pages, and
educational sites.
UC Davis
Viticulture & Enology URLs A list of academic, scientific and some general wine
links. |
BREWING MEAD
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The
Bee's Lees Collection of recipes for making mead.
Honey Wine Dedicated to the education, awareness
and appreciation of mead.
Mead FAQ Getting started: Basic
information about mead and mead making for the beginner. Mead Hall Information and resources for brewers
of mead.
The Mead Maker's Page Homemade
mead making with ingredients. |
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 Homebrew troubleshooting.
Skotrats Recipe Archives Archive of
recipes categorized by style and type.
Storey Books Many
books on home brewing from Storey Publishing. |
HOME BREWING PUBLICATIONS & PERIODICALS
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Ale Street News
"Brewspaper" covering the East Coast beer scene.
All About Beer OnLine American beer magazine
with online articles about beer, brewing beer, and beer news.
American Brewer A beer publication covering the
brewpub and microbrewing industry.
Brewing Techniques Online
BrewingTechniques. Award-winning magazine.
breWorld European Internet site
dedicated to the brewing industry, Good source of news, information and entertainment
regarding brewing and the industry.
breWorld Beer News "Beer
news" from the UK. Updated daily
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
Biweekly review of pubs and beer.
Yankee Brew News New England's "Beer
News" Beeriodical. |
SEWING
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Alicyn McCall's
Alicyn bridal pattern collection is displayed. Tips and advice on fabric, lace, figure
types. Message board.
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.
Sew Creative! Tips, links, classes, Kids Can
Sew, projects, summer 2000 retreat. Baby Sling Pattern to order and sew yourself.
Sew Little Time On-line sewing magazine
offering tips, tricks and FAQ's
Sewing at home forum Live, free
forum
A Sewing Place Club for sewing
enthusiasts from all over the world.
Sewing World Discussion, up-to-date information,
and software.
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 Underwire and
bra FAQs. |
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.
Ring of Stitches Web ring for
machine embroidery and sewing enthusiasts. Open to all sites which have a theme of machine
embroidery or sewing, especially those in the home market place. |
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.
Upholster Step-by-step instructions on
upholstering furniture.
Upholstering
the Walls Interior designer Christopher Lowell explains how to cover walls with
fabric. |
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.
Furniture
Refinishing Furniture refinishing tips for woodworking projects.
Preparing
Furniture for Refinishing A detailed and comprehensive article from the Dept. of
Environmental Design, University of Missouri-Columbia. |
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. 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
Discusses the metallurgy of soldering, applications, fluxes, and alloys.
Soldering Etiquette
(Pass The Spaghetti Sauce!) For musicians.
Soldering Hints Soldering hints,
especially for clock workers, written by the British Horological Institute.
Soldering Process Quick course in
soldering basics.
Soldering
Setup - Jewelry Making What you need to setup for soldering. from About.com.
Welding Encarta
Encyclopedia article explaining the different kinds of welding and their effects. |
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