Come see my etchings
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bunsen_hI've been taking a few days to work on stuff around the house, and to work on a craft project. Details later. One of the needs for this project was some kind of button or other similar decoration, with a silver maple leaf pattern on a brown background, which could be attached to fabric.
I've had no luck at all finding anything of the kind at any of the local craft or fabric stores. This was getting frustrating. I was thinking about having to embroider something... and my embroidery skills are not very good.
Then, on the current Making Light open discussion thread, someone posted a link to a steampunkish site that describes a method for doing electrochemical etching.
Okay, I thought, I can build that. Or something like it. With stuff I happen to have around the house, even.
It worked out better than I could have hoped: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpolowin/3618306128/ .
I've had no luck at all finding anything of the kind at any of the local craft or fabric stores. This was getting frustrating. I was thinking about having to embroider something... and my embroidery skills are not very good.
Then, on the current Making Light open discussion thread, someone posted a link to a steampunkish site that describes a method for doing electrochemical etching.
Okay, I thought, I can build that. Or something like it. With stuff I happen to have around the house, even.
It worked out better than I could have hoped: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpolowin/3618306128/ .
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