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Leather

one of the earliest clothing components, leather has found its place one way or another in almost every culture to ever exist. Properly cared for, a leather bag or jacket can last you for years and years, being supple and stylish the entire time.

while typically made of cows, horses and deer, as shown above,

there are quite a few others, such as fish skin, alligator/crocodile, and even the invasive cane toad (depoisoned, of course).

did you know you can make leather out of intestines? the examples I have here for you are an Inuit parka made from bear intestine, and treated cow rumen (or stomach lining). it's certainly an interesting texture, but one I find quite pleasing.

there's even translucent leathers, made by treating the stuff with oils and glycerin. Or by getting it from ghost cows, either way.

and of course, there's that old staple, parchment (or vellum if we're being fancy). The stuff every book was made of until paper came along, but nothing's stopping you from continuing to use it now.

There's a lot of use that can come from a skin- in fact, you're using one right now! (presumably. I won't judge if you're not.) be sure to keep yours soft and supple both on and off the body- that way it'll last!

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Bone

Since this is a shop for materials of all kinds, what better place to show off some interesting examples of the many things our world is made of! I'll be posting one a day (or whenever I remember to, won't put myself under any stress of a deadline) starting off with the foundational building blocks of you- the bones!

First forming around 550 million years ago in the form of teeth & exoskeleton-like structures of Cambrian era fish, bones nowadays provide support, soft tissue protection, anchor points for the muscles, & their marrow is makes your blood cells (more on them later).

As a material it isn't widely used on Earth, being largely relegated to jewelry, decorative inlays, and as a cooking ingredient. This is mostly due to the lack of True Megafauna whose bones are big enough to provide proper building components.

Let's look at some others of my favorite boney materials!

first off, we'll get through the rest of the regular bones and teeth with some sauropod femur and mammoth ivory! sourced from dig sites and bogs which do allow resale, and still in excellent quality after all these years.

for those in the jewelry business, you might like some bone pearls! don't worry, all of ours are from medical donations and never intentionally cultivated.

speaking of medical, we have synthetic bone structures and calcium-matrix bone cement for your ortho-surgical needs.

back on the crafting side, we have that staple of necroartifice, the bone gears, along with sheep's bone glue pellets and bone bricks made from SkyWhale and Tower Beast.

standard bone powder of every type, useful in potions bone pastes coven baking or as a garden fertilizer.

bone black paint for the artists

finally, in the food category we have roast marrow, bakery bone bread (guaranteed to have no shards), bone-in sausage, broth, and the delicacy of raw tuna spinal jelly- the finest taste in the sea!

be sure to take good care of your bones friends, and we'll see you next time!

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Material: soup bricks. A convenient travel option for the soup connoisseur

Hey guys so I followed that Minecraft recipe like you said and you’re right!

You can make stackable soup blocks!

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Indeed👍

Eldritch Pomegranate

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Material: homemade dandelion jelly. Make the most of your local weeds and other freely available plants- there's a surprising amount of good you can get out of them!

Dandelion jelly turned out amazing so far even though a bunch of my neighbors mowed before I could get to them 😔 but look how pretty! And tastes a lot like honey mmm 🍯🌼

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Material: lab grown meats! I always thought these would & should be real, and here they are!

Crafting the perfect bite of meat: Engineers develop metamaterials that mimic muscle and fat architecture

In a new publication in Nature Communications, Israeli and Palestinian engineers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem pioneered the use of metamaterials to create whole cuts of meat. The work leverages cutting-edge materials science to overcome the long-standing challenges of replicating the texture and structure of traditional meat while offering a scalable and cost-effective production method that surpasses 3D printing technology. Metamaterials are composite materials whose properties arise from their structure rather than their composition. By adopting principles typically used in the aerospace industry, the team, led by Dr. Mohammad Ghosheh and Prof. Yaakov Nahmias from Hebrew University, developed meat analogs that mimic the intricate architecture of muscle and fat. These analogs are produced using injection molding, a high-capacity manufacturing process borrowed from the polymer industry, marking the first time this technology has been applied to alternative meat production.

Read more.

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i need something stronger than liquid courage- something even stronger than solid courage... i need... the plasma courage

Biohazard coffee, 928mg of caffeine. Use it wisely!

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Material: corns! There are many varieties of corn, but here are a few that might interest you:

-Pod corn, the oldest variety known. Each kernel has it's own husk, more akin to the seeds of wild grasses

-Hopi pink & Peruvian black corn

-Jimmy red corn, an heirloom variety favored by moonshiners

-Oaxacan green,purple, and glass gem corn

Whichever variety you choose, know you're getting the freshest and best quality corn here at the Uncraft Store 👍

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Material: cactus fruits!

-Barrel (which has a nice tangy lemon flavor, and seeds to toast as a snack)

-saguaro (deliciously strawberry/melon, though you do need special permissions to harvest them)

-melocactus (little pepper shaped raspberry flavored bites)

-everyone's favorite, the prickly pear

-and dragonfruits, which I'm willing to bet you didn't know were a cactus

come get some fresh tasty fruit!

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Material: woven programs. What a neat way to do data storage! Now if only we had some way to read it...

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

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Material: almond-flavored creature bones. Tasty!

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Material: real Sabersteel Cat fossils! Man, I didn't even know you could still find these

working on a batch of rusty cats!!! the paint contains iron and then is oxidized to make real rust. (not real cat skull of course, in fact it’s an old reject cast given a second life)

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Material: genuine Dhaka muslin, the woven air, now back from the dead!

Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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Material: Pom-eye-granates. To eat one is to be cursed with a vision expanded, able to see beyond the mortal veil. Or, maybe that's just the vitamins, who knows.

Eldritch Pomegranate

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Material: the dandelion crayola crayons. Absolutely gorgeous color, nothing else quite like it

god i love people

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Material: Hemotite crystals, stone bones, fossil clay and blood river water. Nasty business, necrogeology. I wouldn't wanna do it

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

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Material: Banana, Mushroom, Walnut, and Muscadine (or Swamp Grape) ketchups. Did you know that "ketchup" actually refers to the style of sauce, a bit like calling something a jelly? We only think of it as tomato product since that's the most popular. But there are plenty of other options to try!