DIY DIY and How-to

Instructional zines that show or tell how to make or do something, including knitting and other crafts. Some how-to zines can fit in other categories, though, such as zines about bicycle repair, which can go under BIC Bicycles, or zines about gardening, which can go under FOO Food, Farming, and Gardening.

Wise Fool Basics

Resource handbook with how-to guides and diagrams on making giant puppets, shadow puppets, masks, stilts, paper mache lanterns, and costumes. Wise Fool Puppet Intervention is a theatre arts project dedicated to community celebration and change. In the traditions of public spectacle and site-specific celebration, we combine giant puppetry, mask, stiltdancing, wild costumes, music, movement, fire, and song, bringing them into the streets where they are accessible to all.

The Trusty Wrench DIY Guide to Car Repair (1st ed.)

From the distributor's website:
"This is a great starter manual for anyone that's interested in learning how to do basic maintenance on their car or truck. It covers what tools you need, and what the things are that you can do yourself. Includes a troubleshooting section to help you figure out what's wrong with your car. Covers both diesel and gas-powered vehicles."

How2 Zine

"A source for practical and inspirational DIY guides to actively pursuing more independent, self-sufficient, and empowering lifestyles." A big compilation of articles from other zines and books about how to do all kinds of different things, like make a woodstove, make envelopes, repair shoes, do magic tricks, do juggling, make puppets, make flags, make patches, do different scams, solar cooking and giving someone a G-spot orgasm.

How2 Zine #2

Do it yourself recipes/instructions on a variety of subjects, compiled from various zines and individual authors. Includes glue, rope, toothpaste, seed sprouting, hammocks, greywater use, cart bikes, menstrual cramp remedies, and more.