MakerSpark is its own brand, a course platform made only for makers and home to independent craft studios. MakeDesignerBags is one of its founding studios.
Unlimited member? You get in two weeks early.
Not an Unlimited member yet? Get early accessMakerSpark is a brand of arandoo, Inc. and not a MakeDesignerBags project. It brings independent studios together on one platform that is made for how makers learn: no lesson hidden behind menus, no manual before you can press play. MakeDesignerBags is one studio of several, each with its own craft and its own courses.
Learn more at makerspark.ioEvery screen starts from the work on your table: the video, the step you are on and what comes next.
Open your course and press play. No manual, no hunting through menus, nothing to set up first.
Watch it or read it, in five languages, online or saved for when you are offline.

Every lesson comes as video or as text. Take lesson notes, download the patterns, cutting charts and PDFs, save lessons for offline and get your certificate when you finish.


English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. When the studio recorded a lesson in your language, the video switches with it, not only the captions.

Stuck halfway through a step? Ask in plain words. The helper answers from the lesson you are on and takes you to the exact moment in the video. Hands busy? Dictate your question.

Send a photo of your work in progress and get specific, written feedback on what the photo shows, with the next step to take.

Post your work and your questions, reply to other makers, send direct messages and join the events your studio runs.

Bag sewing with MakeDesignerBags, leather work with LeatherCraft Mastery, traditional Dirndl sewing with Rosmarie Henke, and more studios to come. Follow more than one and switch between them in one tap.
Notifications you control. Hear when a new lesson lands, when someone replies to you or when an event starts. You choose which ones you want.
Start a lesson on your laptop and pick it up on your phone at the sewing table. On the web, iPhone and Android.
Before MakerSpark opens to everyone, MakeDesignerBags Unlimited members use it for real and share what they think.
Know a maker studio that belongs here? Recommend it with its website, and the MakerSpark team will take a look.
MakeDesignerBags is one of the founding studios. MakerSpark welcomes independent studios of every craft, and studios apply directly with MakerSpark.
Become Unlimited and you join the early access group: MakerSpark opens for you two weeks before everyone else.
Become UnlimitedPrefer to wait? Join the waitlist below.
Leave your name and email and we will let you know the moment MakerSpark opens.
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MakerSpark is its own brand by arandoo, Inc.: a course platform for independent craft studios. MakeDesignerBags is one of its founding studios, next to LeatherCraft Mastery and Rosmarie Henke. Learn more at makerspark.io.
MakerSpark opens to MakeDesignerBags Unlimited members first, then to everyone on the waitlist. Join the waitlist and we will let you know.
No. You keep the same courses with the same access.
English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. When the studio recorded a lesson in your language, the video switches too.
Yes. MakerSpark is open for new studios of every craft. Apply at makerspark.io.
Unlimited members are invited first, two weeks before everyone else. Not an Unlimited member yet? Become Unlimited and you join the early access group.