What if you couldn't buy it at a store?

How To Make Everything aims to understand the everyday items many of us take for granted by attempting to recreate them entirely by hand, starting only from the raw ingredients as they are found in nature. How To Make Everything isn’t so much a “how-to” show as it is a way of understanding the world. In each series of videos, we take on a new product, learning the history and evolution of the things we use every day.

Could you make it yourself?