miscellaneous resources
arts and crafts
- sewing resources google drive
- - gdrive full of resources on sewing, fabrics, and pattern how-tos
OUTDOORS55 youtube channel
- i learned to sharpen knives from this. he explains it good and has cool close-up footage of the knife edge to help explain
leather and bootblacking
- ian's shoelace site
- - this will teach you every conceivable way to lace your boots
- anyone can shine
- - good intro bootblacking and boot care resource
- decode the types of leather: handbook for buyers and enthusiasts!
- - a guide to different types of leather and what the names mean
- the leather traits and characteristics guide
- - pdf download link to another guide on types of leather
- back to basics: leather manufacture
- - pdf download link for a guide that explains the production process of leather
writing
- butterick's practical typography
- - typesetting and some punctuation. basically, making your shit look nice.
- fontlibrary
- - a font library with fonts of various licensing permissions
- fontfoundry
- - another library of free fonts
photography
- learn photography concepts by cambridge in colour
- - intro to some basic concepts for understanding photography
- digital imaging tutorial
- - a guide by cornell on digitising 2D and paper materials. useful if you're archiving
- scantips
- - comprehensive and clear guide to basic photography and scanning
boots on the ground skills
- riot medicine
- - a guide to protest and field first aid, in both longform and abbreviated practical guide form
other
- tiktok link anonymiser
- - removes all that tracking shit from tiktok links
- virtual microscope
- - open educational resources that shows u what different rocks look like in thin section
- queer music heritage
- - record of lots of music by queer artist. shame about the AI podcast summary of the website but, sure yk