| Vol.
I, No. 6 | Sugaring
/ Spring Equinox | Mar.
16th, 2001 |
Arts
& Craft
Links to Arts & Craft On-Line .. Links
to Arts & Craft On-Line The
amount of info on the web is enormous, as anyone who's ever tried to run a
search can attest to. And, to put it all in context, best estimates say
that only a fraction, maybe 20 - 40 % of what's out there is actually making its
way to the search engines.
Well ...
Here at DownStreet, we'd like to try to help. So each issue, we
post a few links in Arts & Craft to sites that might interest you.
Sometimes the links will be related to one another ... sometimes
we'll just offer up a somewhat random sampling. Sometimes they're about
Vermont sites, sometimes not. In either case, we think we might be able to
help you find the kind of site you've been looking for.
Of
course, while we can't vouch for the fact that every link we provide will be of
interest to everyone, we do our best to filter out the noise and the
bustle. ...
We hope you enjoy the following sites as
much as we do. Soap-Making
Resources As a companion to this month's feature -- Scents
of Proportion, Homemade Soaps by Lynne Gavin -- DownStreet's
Links to Arts & Craft on-line offers these sites devoted to the art &
craft of soap-making. For what it's worth, if you're inclined to give
soap-making a go, these sites can provide useful info and resources. On
the other hand, even if you'd rather leave the work to folks like Lynne who have
both the expertise & creativity, these sites can help you appreciate what's
involved in Lynne's art. The
Soap Making Home Page The Soap Making
Home Page is one of many informative pages among a diverse offering called
The Old Timer Page ... all offered up by Walton Feed, out of Montpelier, Idaho,
an outfit that has specialized in dehydrated foods & supplies for longer
than the Cold War. ...
Among their offerings here? Basic
Instructions ... A Soap Making Recipe For Beginners ... The Lye to Fat Table
... Rebatching ... Soap cooking: How to do it in a modern setting ...
Rendering Fat ... Six Old Time Recipes ... Finding Soap Making Supplies ...
Determining Your Soap's pH ... and more. ... The page also
includes links to nearly four dozen soap-making related sites. If
you do visit this site and "the way things used to be" interests
you, then definitely check out the rest of their offerings on The
Old Timer Page, where you'll find such topics as The Spring House, The
Ice House, Building a Root Cellar, Potting Meat, Long Life Salt Cured Ham,
Salt Curing Meat in Brine, Yeast Cultures for Bread Making, Making Bread in
a wood burning oven, Making Butter, Making Sauerkraut, The Out House,
Knowing Where To Dig A Well, and Digging A Well By Hand. ...
Rating:
**** [4 stars] Soaps
and Soap Making Theme Page This page is part
of CLN
-- The Community Learning Network ... a site "designed to
help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. ... over 265
menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on
educational WWW sites ..."
With its emphasis on K-12, it
makes sense that the first link on this fairly extensive list is a Bubbles
Theme Page, devoted entirely to "formulae, experiments, [and
tricks" with soap bubbles. But it goes much further than
that. You'll also find How to Make Soap ... Colonial Soap Making: Its
History and Techniques ... How to Render Tallow for Soapmaking ... Lye Soap
... and more, including one link called More Than You Ever Wanted To Know
About Making Soap. ...
..
Again,
this page, like the entire CLN site, is aimed primarily at providing
resources for K-12 teachers. But if you're a novice at soap making ...
or anything else for that matter ... this link and the CLN site can be a
useful resource.
Rating: **** [4 stars] How
to Make Soap with Soap Crafters Company The
Soap Crafters Company site is the only commercial site we included {and we
looked at lots of them}. ... Why? Because it seemed to us
to be the most useful, the least intrusive with sales pitches and gimmicks
... and, generally, the most generous of them all. ...
.
Soap
Crafters is primarily a supply house. So, for the serious soap maker,
Soap Crafters' Recipe Writer provides a valuable tool. You plug in the
amounts and unit costs for the various oils you will use, click on
calculate, and the handy on-line tool will return costs for 0%, 5%, and 9%
superfat batches. There are also recipes for Flavored Massage Butters
& Oils ... Lip Balm ... Glycerin Melt & Pour Recipes ... How to Make
Soap From Scratch (Cold Process) ... How to Make Bath Bombs ... and even
Recipes for Religious Soaps.
.
Soap
Crafters is a solid site with lots of useful into. We highly recommend
it.
Rating: ****1/2 [4-1/2 stars]
. *******
******* If you know of any
links that you think are worthwhile, why not send them along to ...
links@downstreetmagazine.com
... If we agree, we'll be happy to include
them in an upcoming issue to pass the word along. ...
Thanks. *******
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