Arts and Crafts
Archives focused around arts and crafts, broadly inclusive.
Antique Pattern Library
"This ongoing project is an effort to scan craft pattern publications that are in the public domain, to preserve them, so we can keep our craft heritages in our hands. Most of these scans have been graphically edited to make the images easier for craft workers to see, and to reduce file sizes. They are available, for free, to anyone who wants them, for educational, personal, artistic and other creative uses."
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Artbeads Tutorials free
"Learn to Bead with Artbeads.com... At Artbeads.com, we understand the joy and creativity that comes with beading. That’s why we’ve dedicated a special category for everyone eager to learn to bead. Whether you’re a beginner looking to start your journey in jewelry making, or an experienced crafter seeking new technologyniques, our extensive collection of free tutorials is your go-to resource."
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Artbeads.com Kumihimo Tutorials
"Explore Traditional Japanese Braiding...Embark on a journey through the ancient art of Kumihimo with Artbeads, where our tutorials seamlessly blend traditional Japanese braiding with the vibrant world of beads. Our step-by-step guides are crafted for both beginners and seasoned crafters, offering everything from basic technologyniques to intricate designs. Enhance your creations with our specially curated selection of beads, perfect for Kumihimo projects. Discover the endless possibilities of braiding with beads and elevate your jewelry-making skills at Artbeads."
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Comics Devices Library
"The Creator’s Guide to Comics Devices... sequential art, graphic narrative, graphic literary, visual-literary and all other euphemisms for comics"
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Dafont
"The fonts presented on this website are their authors’ property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain."
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Identify Font
"Identifont was launched in November 2000 to provide designers with a tool to help them identify fonts or select the best fonts for their projects. Since then it has grown to become the largest independent directory of digital fonts on the Internet, with a number of unique tools for locating fonts for particular applications."
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Maker World
3D model library/community. Accepts genAI models but requires them to be labeled.
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Sentimental Baby
Personal blog, frequently discusses knitting, sewing, and books on fiber arts. Last updated 2015.
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Sheep and Stitch
"Sheep & Stitch is more than just a site for knitting tutorials, patterns and inspiration. It’s based on a larger philosophy that everyone is a creator."
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Stitchpoint’s Free Cross Stitch Writer
"StitchPoint develops, produces and sells stitching kits professionally and with much love. This website is the only existing selling outlet! Dutch designer Grea van Vlerken founded the company in 2005 and since then several people around her have contributed in making StitchPoint a success."
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The Creator’s Guide to Comics Devices
"This library will give you (creator, amateur, scholar, etc) practical instruction on devices that are available in comics."
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Images
Collections of images, many are public domain. Refer to individual listings for more information.
Bayeux Tapestry Museum
"Discover the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene and follow online the 70 meter-long embroidered canvas which tells the story of the conquest of England in 1066."
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blinkies.cafe
"blinkies.cafe is a blinkie generator you can use to create your own blinkie gifs, choosing from dozens of styles and adding whatever text you like!"
Contains Strobe/Flashing Lights
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Chromeography
"In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump."
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Dinosaur Pictures
"Welcome to the internet’s largest dinosaur database. Check out a random dinosaur, search for one below, or look at our interactive globe of ancient Earth! Whether you are a kid, student, or teacher, you’ll find a rich set of dinosaur names, pictures, and facts here. This site is built with PaleoDB, a scientific database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists over the past two decades."
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Great Castles
"Most castles have similar features, though all are unique due to their location and the surrounding geography. Here, you will find floor plans to understand their impressive constructions."
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Europe
Ireland
United Kingdom
HALTADEFINIZIONE
"In 2005, we invented a new way to look at art. Explore our image bank and its masterpieces in gigapixel format."
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JSTOR
"Explore the world’s knowledge, cultures, and ideas... Search journals, books, images, and primary sources"
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MessyBeast
"Messybeast.com ("Messybeast") is a privately maintained, not-for-profit archive of cat-related articles, information and clip-art. Messybeast is not a company, charity or non-profit organisation. Its main emphasis is cat care, cat welfare, feral cats and associated information for cat owners. It also contains general interest articles ranging from cloning and genetics through to the role of cats in idiom and urban mythology. A number of relatively scientific and technologynical topics are presented in plain English, making them accessible to those without a scientific background."
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OurStory Scotland
"OurStory Scotland is a registered Scottish Charity (SCIO). We collect, archive and present the life stories and experiences of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender) community in Scotland. This involves oral history work with all ages, including the older generation, whose stories reveal the tremendous changes that have occurred in the situation of LGBT people during their lifetime. In addition to collecting stories, images, artefacts and research materials from LGBT lives, we present our heritage through the arts, in exhibitions, storytelling and drama."
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Pexels
"The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators."
Contains Downloadable Files
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Rare Historical Photos
"RareHistoricalPhotos.com is a website/blog exclusively dedicated to historical and rare photographs. Each historical photograph has a story to tell, each of them documents a major event in human history, each photo is a way to grasp the full meaning of the past."
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The London Archives
"The London Archives is a free public archive focussing on the history of London from 1067 to the present day. Visit us to explore millions of historical manuscripts, maps, photographs, books and films or enjoy our exhibitions, events and workshops. Entrance is free and everyone is welcome."
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Unsplash
"The internet’s source for visuals. Powered by creators everywhere."
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Other
Random other archives, uncategorized.
A Gender Variance Who’s Who
"A Gender Variance Who’s Who. Essays on trans, intersex, cis and other persons and topics from a trans perspective.......All human life is here."
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AFB Helen Keller Archive
"The Helen Keller Archival Collection at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is the world’s largest repository of letters, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, architectural drawings, artifacts and audio-video materials relating to Helen Keller."
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Alphametic/Cryptarithm Puzzles
"An alphametic puzzle (also sometimes known as a cryptarithm) is a type of puzzle where words are put together into an arithmetic formula such that digits can be substituted for the letters to make the formula true."
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Archive of Our Own
"A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic."
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ASCII Art Archive
"A large collection of ASCII art drawings and other related ASCII art pictures."
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Atomic Rockets
"While this site originally focused on rocketry equations, as you can see it has grown to encompass other topics of interest to science fiction authors and game designers. Things like galactic empires and interstellar trade."
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Busy Beaver Button Museum
"Our mission is to share as much American history as possible through pin-back buttons. One may think that buttons are a very niche collection but they cover a wide range of cultural history. From large world events to the most obscure, buttons capture a people’s view of history that is expressed through design and messaging."
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Cirrus Retro
"Easily explore, share, and interact with retro game music inside your web browser."
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ComicFury
"ComicFury webcomic hosting is a free, easy to use and advertisement-free tool that will help you easily set up and host a website for your webcomic, without any technologynical knowledge. All you will have to worry about when using ComicFury is actually making the comics, the rest is provided by us."
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Cross Stitch Quest
"Free geeky cross stitch patterns and reviews... I want to feel like I’ve contributed to something before I die, and so I cast cross stitch patterns into the ether that is the internet and perhaps one day I will think I’ve done all right. I will shout the things I love at the top of my lungs and hopefully someone will hear me and feel the same."
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Cryptarithm Solver
"Tool/solver to resolve cryptarithms, a numeric puzzle which consists in a mathematical calculation in which letters have been replaced by digits to find."
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dCode
"dCode.fr is a collection of over 900 tools to help solve games, riddles, ciphers, mathematics, puzzles, etc."
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DDoSecrets
"We’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit in the US that archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents in the public interest."
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Digital Transgender Archive
"The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world."
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DRAWING FOR NOTHING
"[A] free compendium for the artwork of the world’s canceled and troubled animated films."
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Fontspace
"130,000+ Free Fonts... Free downloads of legally licensed fonts that are perfect for your design projects."
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Freegal Music
"Offering over 18 million songs belonging to 200+ genres— including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists— Freegal Music+ is one of the most popular library services in the world, and with 200,000 songs added monthly, there’s always something new for listeners to discover. So what are you waiting for? All you need is your library card (and pin number) to join our 2.5 million+ users in browsing through our vast collection of today’s top hits, yesterday’s favorites, and curated playlists made just for you. (Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of subscribing libraries.)"
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Freesound.org
"Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse."
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GLAAD
"Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized. GLAAD strives to protect all that has been accomplished and helps create a world where everyone can live the life they love."
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United States
HugeQuiz
"hugequiz is home to a large number of mostly data-intensive quizzes. The biggest quizzes online!"
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Indigenous Peoples Task Force
"The Indigenous Peoples Task Force strengthens the wellness of our community in a way that is based in indigenous values and ways of knowing."
"We were founded in 1987 to develop and implement culturally appropriate HIV education and direct services to the Native community in Minnesota. We know our community will not be completely well until all people have restored their relationships with each other and the earth. "
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United States
Irish Script on Screen
"Established in 1999, ISOS is the largest digital repository of Irish manuscripts. Over 450 manuscripts digitised."
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Ireland
Itch.io
"itch.io is an open marketplace for independent digital creators with a focus on independent video games. It’s a platform that enables anyone to sell the content they’ve created. As a seller you’re in charge of how it’s done: you set the price, you run sales, and you design your pages. It’s never necessary to get votes, likes, or follows to get your content approved, and you can make changes to how you distribute your work as frequently as you like."
"itch.io is also a collection of some of the most unique, interesting, and independent creations you’ll find on the web. We’re not your typical digital storefront, with a wide range of both paid and free content, we encourage you to look around and see what you find."
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J!
A "fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players."
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Knitty
"[P]atterns for the people since 2002".
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Knock Knock Jokes
"This is one of the largest collections of Knock Knock Jokes on the web, boasting more than 2,500 knock-knock jokes!"
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Know Your Meme
"Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more."
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LGBT Religious Archives Network
"The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) coordinates and supports the identification, collection and preservation of personal papers and organizational records from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender religious movements. To encourage scholarly research and historical study of these important movements for social change, LGBTQ-RAN disseminates information about these records and provides and facilitates access to them, using digital technology when possible."
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LibriVox
"Free public domain audiobooks... Read by volunteers from around the world."
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Lili Elbe Digital Archive
"The Lili Elbe Digital Archive went public on July 6, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) where Lili Elbe as Einar Wegener was initially examined in March 1930."
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Live Well Bake Often
"Here at Live Well Bake Often you’ll find hundreds of classic baked goods and desserts that I’ve created in my own kitchen. All of the recipes on my site are tested multiple times to ensure their accuracy. You’ll also find step-by-step instructions and as much detail as possible with each recipe because I want you to have 100% success when you make them. My hope is that Live Well Bake Often will be your ultimate resource for baking. I want you to feel completely confident when it comes to making any recipe on my site – even if you’ve never baked from scratch in your entire life."
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Making Gay History
"Making Gay History (MGH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that addresses the absence of substantive, in-depth LGBTQ+-inclusive American history from the public discourse and the classroom."
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mathematics Aids
"Math-Aids.Com provides free mathematics worksheets for teachers, parents, students, and home schoolers. The mathematics worksheets are randomly and dynamically generated by our mathematics worksheet generators. This allows you to make an unlimited number of printable mathematics worksheets to your specifications instantly."
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noclip
Searchable database of virtual environments from video games - navigable with a floating camera.
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Open Course Ware MIT
"Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required."
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OutHistory.org
"OutHistory is a public history website that aims to generate, present, and promote high-quality evidence-based LGBTQ historical research for LGBTQ and general audiences. We also work to foster the development and growth of broad and diverse communities of people interested in learning about and producing LGBTQ histories. We are especially interested in under-represented histories and historical research that contributes to positive social change. Most but not all of the current content focuses on the United States and Canada, sometimes in larger transnational contexts."
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Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
Digitized version of "Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)"
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Puzzle Baron Cryptograms
"If you love to solve cryptograms, you’ve come to the right place! We’ve got thousands and thousands of unique cryptograms ready and waiting to be solved. Feel free to play casually as a guest, or, if you’re a more competitive sort, register a free account and be automatically entered in each of our monthly cryptograms competitions!"
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Puzzle Baron Logic Puzzles
"Welcome to the world’s largest web site devoted to logic puzzles! We’ve got more than 25,000 unique puzzles available for play, both online and the old fashioned way - with pencil and paper. Feel free to solve online just for fun, or, for an added challenge, register a free account and compete against thousands of other solvers to make it into our Logic Puzzle Hall of Fame!"
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Royal Road
"Royal Road® is the home of web novels and fan fictions! In our amazing community, you can find various talented individuals who write as a hobby or even professionally, artists who create art for them, and many, many readers who provide valuable feedback and encouragement."
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RSN Stitchbank
"The Royal School of Needlework created the RSN Stitch Bank to mark its 150th anniversary and continue its founding mission to preserve the art of hand embroidery. The RSN Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times."
"The RSN Stitch Bank is an ongoing project. More stitches will be added regularly and the RSN will be working with partners around the world to include stitches from different traditions."
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The Anatomy of Germanic Art
"A Quick Guide to the Styles of Nordic Animal Ornament -- This guide is a prequel to The Anatomy of Viking Art and explores the ornamental styles of Early Medieval Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age (c. 400 – 800 CE). From the beginning of the Migration Period to the start of the Viking Age, this guide breaks down each style to its basic components in an easy to understand and straightforward manner."
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The Deleuze Seminars
"The Deleuze Seminars website is publishing English translations of the seminar lectures given by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) at the University of Paris between 1971 and 1987."
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The Musical Time Machine
"Radiooooo is a collaborative website, which goal is to open each and everyone’s horizons through culture and beauty."
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Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae 2.2.0
"Immerse yourself in a wealth of Egyptian texts... In the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA), you’ll find a wide variety of writings, from terse labels to extensive narratives, produced by Egyptian scribes and recorded on the walls of temples and tombs, on stelae, papyrus, and ostraca, on tomb equipment, tools, vessels, and instruments."
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Transgender Media Portal
"Welcome to the Transgender Media Portal. Discover films, videos made by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists. "
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Vatican Archives Digitized Manuscripts
"Welcome! This project is a continuation of the work started by Jean-Baptiste Piggin tracking new manuscripts added to the digitized manuscripts of the Vatican Libraries."
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Vintage Crafts and More
"Free Vintage Craft Patterns: Sewing, Crochet, Knitting, Embroidery, Quilting and More!"
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VocaDB Wiki
"This wiki is primarily used for documenting guidelines and rules for [Vocaloid Database]".
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Wiktionary
"Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English."
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WindowSwap
"Open a window somewhere in the world".
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