Urban Hands II - An arts and crafts fair

After the first edition of Urban Hands, it was natural that it would have its subsequent editions too, but who would have known that it would happen so soon. By now, if you have been following UH II on the events page, you would already be having a prelude on what to expect on the D-Day. For those that...

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How to join the ChennaiCrafters group

The Chennai Crafters group has been made into a secret group due to new Facebook changes. To join the group, all you have to do is send us a mail at chennaicrafters@gmail.com and mention your Facebook e-mail address. We'll send you an invite to the group. Note : Your Facebook E-mail address is the address...

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Design for change - Crafting for a cause

When one of the admins received an invitation from Lakshmi Venkatraman to participate in this truly noble cause of gifting a group of school kids to experience the joy of crafting, the invitation was promptly passed on to the rest of the crafting community in Chennai. And guess what ! A team was quickly formed...

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Soap Carving Can Be Complex - Or Not !

This is a guest post by Dr.Mani. Do read on as he shares his experience on soap carving. For years, I never could imagine myself as a crafter, writer or artist. Why? Because I believed that to be good at it, one needed to have "tools of the trade".  Kits.  Guides.  Paraphernalia.  The...

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Recycling, Upcycling and more - A chat with Chitra Mandanna

Starting with this month, we're going to have a new feature in the blog - The featured artist of the month! We wanted to get going with the action here and we thought the best way to do that is to catch up with an extremely talented crafter from amongst us. A multifaceted artist who works with any medium...

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Why a separate blog for CC ?

The ChennaiCrafters group has been quite an active and interactive group. It has been so much fun to exchange ideas and share each others works on the group page. This blog is an initiative to take the ChennaiCrafters from out of the closed group and create a reach that can well go beyond Facebook. The more...

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Urban Hands - A ChennaiCrafters' initiative

A 6 month old group, 3 meet ups! Had to think of something bigger so we don't just stop there. In the third meet up, we all decided about having our very first handmade event in Chennai. A few days later, we wanted to make sure it didn't stop with that. We then asked every member to mail us their works and...

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