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Material Alchemy

Seat or stool covering

Denim upholstery was standard on workbenches and bar stools for decades, because the fabric withstands friction and doesn't fade easily. Modern industrial design today brings this back: visible denim with thick stitching is a café and loft aesthetic. And there's simple preservation chemistry: candle wax rubbed into the fabric makes it slightly water-repellent, an old technique of field workers.

  • The widest region of the jeans the hips
  • Upholstery stapler or tacks and hammer, or strong fabric glue
  • New foam or the bench's old foam, if it's still in good shape
2 h
Material Alchemy

Homemade painting paint

The eggshell is basically calcium carbonate, the same mineral that for centuries has served as a white "filler" in paints and plasters, as in the tradition of gesso and old wall plaster. When ground very fine and mixed with a binder diluted glue, it becomes a matte, good-coverage paint that applies naturally over paper, wood and clay walls.

  • Clean eggshells from 6 to 10 eggs
  • Common white glue school type
  • Water
40 min
Visual Agronomy and Applied Biology

Grow rosemary and aloe vera

Rosemary is a Mediterranean shrub that stores essential oils in its leaves — that's why it withstands sun and drought, and that's why it is beloved in hair rinses. Aloe vera is a succulent whose leaves store gel full of water and mucilage, that viscous substance that hydrates and forms a protective film over hair and scalp.

  • A pot at least 30 cm deep with holes in the bottom rosemary and a shallow pot with draina…
  • Regular soil mixed with coarse sand or perlite half and half to ensure drainage
  • A rosemary sprout or seedling and an aloe leaf or pup ask someone who already grows them…
1 h