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Two hands are held apart, each holding a different wallpaper 2’ x 1’ swatch featuring a design with cream flowers and stems on a light brown background. The left hand holds a Silver Metallic Wallpaper swatch where the cream elements show up on a silver background. The right hand holds a Gold Metallic Wallpaper swatch where the cream elements show up on a gold background. Lying on the white surface below both hands are other Metallic Wallpaper samples, some with watercolor jewel-tone flowers and some with red cranes.
What You Need to Know to Design for Metallic Wallpaper

By Betsy Greer on April 12, 2024

The finished room. The designs on the art, bedding and headboards are light pink and green florals. A pink bedside table with a bouquet of bright flowers to the left and a yellow lamp to the right is between the two beds.
How to Make a DIY Headboard with Peel and Stick Wallpaper

By Danika Herrick on March 8, 2024

Four horizontal blocks of designs inspired by the African diaspora. From left to right, designs featuring Afro picks, large yellow and red orchids, large dark teal and black leaves and repeating Art Deco-inspired terracotta eyes.
5 Surface Design Themes Inspired By the African Diaspora 

By Courtney Napier on February 12, 2024

A person wearing a blue-and-white gingham dress holds a bowl of rice that itself is held in a fabric bowl cozy. The fabric on the top side of the cozy features bright flowers in inks, reds, yellows and white. The fabric on the bottom side features black geometric lines on a white background.
How to Sew a Bowl Cozy

By Peppermint Magazine on March 29, 2024

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Robert Mahar

Robert Mahar is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, maker and embroidery enthusiast who teaches clever do-it-yourself projects and develops imaginative craft inspired products. He’s also a proud alumni of the inaugural season of NBC’s crafting competition show Making It with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman. With an education in studio arts and art history, he has worked in a variety of creative fields including 13 years as an appraiser of modern and contemporary art.

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About Robert Mahar

Robert Mahar is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, maker and embroidery enthusiast who teaches clever do-it-yourself projects and develops imaginative craft inspired products. He’s also a proud alumni of the inaugural season of NBC’s crafting competition show Making It with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman. With an education in studio arts and art history, he has worked in a variety of creative fields including 13 years as an appraiser of modern and contemporary art. Learn more about Robert, explore his video tutorial archive and shop his collection of curious embroidery samplers at robert-mahar.com.

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Two tea towels with various botanicals hang from the handle of a stainless steel appliance.
How To Make a Pressed Flower Tea Towel

By Robert Mahar on December 13, 2023

How to Add Embroidery to a Wall Hanging 

By Robert Mahar on August 18, 2022

A green fabric book cover with a black rectangle patch. The patch has
How to Easily Create Hand Embroidered Typography

By Robert Mahar on June 17, 2022

How to Make a No-Sew Bunny Egg Cosy

By Robert Mahar on March 9, 2020

How to Print Your Photos on Fabric for Embroidery (and Beyond!)

By Robert Mahar on February 20, 2020

Turn Your Embroidery Art Into a Patch with Robert Mahar

By Robert Mahar on August 28, 2019

5 Ways to Personalize a Map with Embroidery

By Robert Mahar on February 2, 2018

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