Make gifts yourself

Our professional quality stretcher frames are covered with a blended fabric of 75% cotton and 25% polyester. The cloth is stapled to the frame on the back. On the front it is primed twice white, on the back simply in a brownish natural tone. On the stretcher you can work with all common painting techniques.

The spruce table easel is a compact, practical easel that has been specially developed for artists looking for a flexible and space-saving solution for their creative projects. It provides a stable base, yet is light enough to be easily transported and stored.

With a maximum canvas height of 60 cm and an adjustable overall height of 80 to 104 cm, it is suitable for a wide range of canvas sizes and painting techniques. The central pole with the adjustable support makes it possible to flexibly adjust both the height and the angle of the canvas in order to work optimally. The base surface of 34 x 28 cm ensures a firm stand.

There is no need to use a solvent when working with Cobra oil paint because both the paint and all the corresponding mediums will mix with water. This is possible because the oils have been modified so that water will not be repelled but instead will form a stable mixture of small drops of oil in water (= emulsion).

Cobra can be used for all conventional oil painting techniques (alla prima or wet-on-wet, layer over layer, etc.) up to and including glazing techniques. The result is the typical oil painting look in which the colour hues and brush strokes remain unchanged after drying. This professional quality artist paint is distinguished by its high content of finely ground pigments. All the colours are extremely lightfast (non-fading for at least 100 years under museum conditions). Half of the colours are mono-pigmented, which means that those paints have only one type of pigment and, when mixed, produce a very pure result.

This rather pasty paint can be worked with using bristle or synthetic fibre paintbrushes, palette knives or sponges. If heavily diluted, it can also be worked with using a watercolour brush. As with all oil paints, canvases that have been primered are the most suitable substrates for its application. Because it can be used without solvents, neither unpleasant odours nor unhealthy vapors will be produced with use and your painting utensils and your hands can be washed clean with soap and water.

The set of 5 contains these colours: titanium white (105), permanent light yellow (283), dark pyrrole red (345), cobalt blue (ultramarine) (512), and permanent green dark (619).

Set of 10 contains these colours: titanium white (105), permanent light yellow (283), cobalt blue (ultramarine) (512), permanent green dark (619), burnt sienna (411), yellow ochre (227, permanent light violet (577), pyrrole red (315), ivory black (701) and permanent orange (266).  This set is also available as a gift set which also has 2 flat bristle paintbrushes (size 4 and 10), a double clip-on palette cup and one 75 ml bottle of Cobra painting medium.

We recommend the six primary colours as the basic palette to use for learning the art of mixing colours: primary yellow (275), primary cyan (572), permanent yellow medium (284), primary magenta (369), pyrrole red (315) and ultramarine (504) as well as titanium white (105) and ivory black (701).

The embroidery kits teach basic skills as well as more advanced specialized knowledge so that you can then tackle further creative embroidery projects. They are therefore perfect for anyone who would like to learn this traditional and popular craft but has not yet found the right starting point.

This starter set shows how to make your own jewelry. It contains everything you need to get started. Thanks to the QR code, you can access videos that explain the different basic elements and techniques of jewelry making. 

The sets are therefore perfect for anyone who wants to learn this popular craft, but has not yet found the right start.

How to do it: Divide the paper pulp into small pieces and soak in water. Grind the wet pulp in a blender or with a whisk. Pour the pulp into a deep container with plenty of water and sprinkle in the flowers. Stir the pulp and get it moving. Then lower the frame into the pulp and pull it back up horizontally when filled, allowing the paper pulp to settle in the frame and the water to drain through the built-in strainer. Carefully transfer the wet paper pulp to the absorbent rags provided, dab off excess liquid and allow to dry. This technique can be used to recycle a wide variety of scrap paper and create interesting surfaces, prints or motifs that can also be decorated with glitter, for example. If you use a single frame (instead of the double frame), you get more uneven, rustic paper edges.

For many, just the creative process of making paper is a treat. You can use the finished sheets for many creative purposes - crafting and decorating, all kinds of writing, hole-decorating projects, and more.

For pasting your photo highlights, for the children's artwork or your own drawings: A self-designed calendar is always a personal gift. You can give it to your loved ones for St. Nicholas, because it already starts in December. And then it may remain hanging until January.

The DIY kit offers you an ideal introduction to the world of bookbinding. The kit contains almost everything you need to create your own hardcover notebook in A5 format. In addition, you only need a cutter, pencil and scissors.

The step-by-step instructions and a practical video make it easy for you: With the cardboard for the front, the back and the spine, you create the cover in combination with the book cloth. You simply apply the required glue with the brush included in the scope of delivery. The tools that are also included - a folding leg, a corner cutting device and a blanket making angle - make the work as comfortable as possible.

Then you attach the bookmark and the headband and place the book block in the binding. After gluing the endpapers, it is advisable to weigh the book down and let it dry overnight before using it as a recipe collection, diary or planner.

With a carving block and and cutting tool you can make your own stamps. Stamping is a relief printing method similar to the classic linocut technique. As compared to the latter, working in/with rubber has a bunch of advantages: the material is clearly softer, a lot less effort is needed to carve it as compared to linoleum panels - which is one reason this type is much more suitable for kids to work with. And any chance of injury is not only much less for children but for everyone else as well. A further advantage of carving rubber as compared to linoleum: rubber is naturally less brittle and precision tools are much less likely to break when working on it - as can happens with linoleum under some circumstances.

The soft surface allows for clean cuts in all directions when, for example, working with linoleum carving tools but also with a wood carving knife, a scissors or a kitchen knife. The density of the material allows both sides to be worked on. Basically every kind of paint can be used when making prints with this block; in the case of paints containing solvent, however, a test should be made to check the compatibility with the (synthetic, and also latex-free) rubber.

What is the difference between the white and blue versions of the rubber? The white version is somewhat softer, which makes it the best choice for kids because it is easier to work with. The blue version, on the other hand, is better for really fine, precise carving because it is somewhat firmer and stable and somewhat less elastic.

With this screen printing set for beginners, you have all the utensils, tools and materials you need for screen printing (with the exception of a light and clamps). You can use it to print textiles such as T-shirts, sweaters, etc. with your own motifs/graphics up to A4 size in black.

In addition to this set, you will also need a standard inkjet printer so that you can print your motif onto the film for screen exposure. You can also paint your motif directly onto the film. Opaque black markers (not included in the set) are particularly suitable for this.

With the set, you can expose your own motifs in the screen printing frame and then print e.g. 50 T-shirts yourself in a very high quality and durable way. If you also want to use the set for screen printing on paper, you can easily buy a matching screen printing frame with 90 T and the corresponding screen printing ink for paper. The other products included in the set are suitable for both paper and textile printing.

You can use the screen printing set again and again: If your frame has a motif that you no longer want to print, simply wash your old motif out of the screen with the decoater. You can then re-coat the screen and expose a new motif. To do this, you can use a halogen lamp (from 400 watts, not included in the set) or simply sunlight. You can therefore redesign your stencil again and again and print different motifs.

The wooden dolls can be individually painted and designed. Whether different animal motives, a small family or a traditional matryoshka doll painting - the figures are a unique decoration or gift idea.

With the large storage caddy tool box, you always have a wide variety of small parts, stationery, art utensils, small tools, cutlery or cosmetics to hand. Made from robust polypropylene, the caddy offers plenty of space and keeps your desk or sideboard or shelf tidy. The carrying handle makes the toolbox mobile and you can carry it anywhere. This is very practical, not least for changing workstations such as desk sharing. When empty, the caddy can be stacked to save space.

"Stamps turn the smallest piece of paper into something special," says graphic designer Katja Kücherer. She's designed the simple and very graphic miniature motifs for every occasion. The stamps are made exclusively in Germany.

To have fun for a long time, you should stamp the rubber on a damp cloth after use until there are no more color residues.

The conclusion expressed by one of our staff members at Modulor – a trained woman bookbinder – after making a test run with this bookbinding glue was: “It does exactly what it´s supposed to do”. In other words, it has a variety of uses and reliably creates the bonds you need for bookbinding work.

It is a dispersion glue that contains a plasticizer and becomes a colourless, transparent, resilient elastic film of glue when cured. The film is moisture-proof, resists yellowing and is aging-resistant. On the one hand, it can be used for glue bonds with or without gauze when making a book block and the like, or, on the other, for flat glue bonds on paper, cardboard and paperboard. When gluing plastic or paper that is coated with varnish or silicone you should switch to our Planatol AD94/5 glue.

The glue can be thinned up to 10% with water or moistened paste in order to increase its spreadability so it can be used for larger surface areas. In this case the paste alternative is better than water because the gluing strength of the mixture is thereby not decreased. Acrylic colours can be added to the glue if coloured bonds are needed, or you can add luminescent pigments – then the book spine or, alternatively, the notepad will glow in the dark!

Regarding aging-resistance: we cannot really certify this attribute because our glue was not put through the expensive testing necessary for certification but is indeed based on a synthetic resin, which on its own is acid-free and aging resistant, so our assumptions are not without basis.

This paper “for eternal generations” (“chi” means thousand, “yo” means generation(s), “gami” means paper) has a rich tradition and, with its brilliant colours, was originally used as a material to make small paper objects like puppets or boxes. Each individual sheet of machine-made white Kozu paper is printed by means of an elaborate screen printing process which is done by hand with the result that a typical white border is left free. We carry only a small selection chosen from among the myriad possible patterns that themselves are based on Japanese kimono materials. Some of the more than 1,000 traditional patterns go all the way back to the 17th century. There are two distinct groups: the Edo type (Edo is today’s Tokyo) with striped, chequered or cherry blossom-like patterns which come in one colour with only slight variations and the Kyoto type with many different motifs in many coloured resplendence.