Craft and Making Process Pack

Indigo shibori dyeing, lost-wax bronze casting, bobbin lace, letterpress typesetting, stone letter carving, copper engraving, wet felting, raffia coiling and more across all four models.

Craft and making process prompts are the closest AI image generation gets to documentary photography — the subject is a human hand mid-action, and the prompt has to carry the vocabulary of the trade (throwing, hatching, carding, chasing, slaking) rather than a generic "person making something" that collapses every output into the same clean-hands studio shot. The prompts below span the fire crafts (blacksmithing, bronze casting, glassblowing, raku), the textile crafts (indigo dyeing, bobbin lace, wet felting, weaving), the print and paper crafts (letterpress, bookbinding, linocut, copper engraving), the wood and leather crafts (woodturning, chisel honing, leatherwork, dovetail joinery), and the clay crafts (pottery throwing, glaze dipping). Each one names the tool, the material state, and the specific moment in the process — because "a blacksmith at work" renders as a man holding a hammer, while "a blacksmith striking glowing steel on an anvil with sparks rising" renders the actual craft. The recurring failure is hands: models add extra fingers or merge the hand with the tool, so the prompts describe the hand by its action rather than its anatomy. The second failure is material state — molten glass, wet clay, carded wool, and indigo-dyed cloth each have a specific surface quality the prompt must name. For the full technique walkthrough, see the guide 10 AI Craft and Making Process Prompts for Workshop and Studio Images on the blog.

16 prompts · every one tested and published with its exact settings