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- Craftster was an online community for crafting and do it yourself (DIY) enthusiasts. Users post pictures of craft projects they have made and others comment and ask questions about how it was made. The Craftster.org website closed on December 19, 2019. The site's tagline, "No tea cozies without irony", referred to the fact that many of the projects posted are irreverent, off-beat, humorous, clever, etc. While projects posted on the site tended to be made using traditional techniques such as knitting, crochet, cross stitch and sewing they often conveyed modern sentiments such as images of a favorite rock band, or motifs from a favorite 1980s video game. The site had over 190,000 registered members. It has been written up in publications such as Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. The membership was over 190,000, and readership was over 1,000,000 unique visitors per month and over 10,000,000-page views per month. The site has been called be one of the forces behind the renaissance of crafting among a new, young, contemporary demographic. (en)
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- Craftster was an online community for crafting and do it yourself (DIY) enthusiasts. Users post pictures of craft projects they have made and others comment and ask questions about how it was made. The Craftster.org website closed on December 19, 2019. The site had over 190,000 registered members. It has been written up in publications such as Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. The membership was over 190,000, and readership was over 1,000,000 unique visitors per month and over 10,000,000-page views per month. (en)
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