With beautiful photos and interesting projects that encompass all areas of witchcraft, this is a wonderful book for anyone interested in learning how to make personal items. Easy to follow and well explained, it has a vast range of crafts to suit everyone. Highly recommend.

Thank you to the author & publisher for allowing me to read this book early in return for my honest thoughts and review.

Great layout and beautiful photos. This is a comprehensive guide and a wonderful addition to a solitary witch's shelf and a really nice resource for making tools for your practice. A lot of inspiration and projects to try inside. I have a lot of adjacent hobbies that appreciated with this book. If you like homesteading this book would be particularly useful.

An interesting recipe book that includes many things other introduction to magic books don't. I liked that is included a lot of history. I am excited to go and try to make some incense.

This book is full of comprehensive recipes and instructions or all types of occult crafts. I'm particularly excited to try making the edible butter candle and natural dyes! The directions are all accompanied by beautiful photographs and historical background. Would love to see more by this author.

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read an ARC of this book!

This book delves into the realms of "Green Witch," focusing on personal, nature-based magic rooted in plants, cooking, and environmental energy. Its clear and thoughtful instructions, paired with beautiful imagery, offer an inspiring journey. What distinguishes this book is its comprehensive exploration of magical crafting, spanning from natural dyes and inks to oils and incense, fostering creativity and a deeper bond with nature. The author's emphasis on natural ingredients and sustainable methods adds depth, and the inclusion of scientific explanations enhances understanding beyond mystical language typically found in such works.

This book was great! The instructions were clear, straightforward, and there were so many good photos. I can’t wait to try them!

The witch’s workshop is a beautiful book with lots of wonderful crafts you can do on your journey as a witch.

The pictures are truly stunning, the texts are lovely and detailed, the crafts are well put together and it’s so easy to understand every single step to making incense, paper, inks and all of the other things talked about in the book.

I would be the happiest person alive if I was gifted this book, and I can’t wait to get my hands on a physical copy and try to make every single thing named in the book.

I’m truly grateful for getting the chance to read this ARC.
A huge thanks to NetGalley, Melissa Madara and Watkins Publishing for this amazing opportunity.

This was a beautifully illustrated book with lots of recipes for magical items such as incense,, inks, oils and candles. Many of the items required some ingredients that were not easily sourced but for my purposes this book was perfect as a reference to what could be made using foraged ingredients.

The Witch's Workshop: A Guide to Crafting Your Own Magical Tools by Melissa Madara empowers individuals to become self-sufficient witches and masters of the natural arts. This resource not only provides guidance on creating tools for magical practices but also explores techniques for natural homesteading. Drawing inspiration from ancient societies, readers can learn how to make dyes for clothing, candles for light, and much more.

This is a reference book packed full of information!! Gorgeous pictures to match the detailed recipes...this is a must have to expand your practice e

Thank you Netgalley and Watkins Publishing for the chance to read The Witch's Workshop as an ARC.

With gorgeous illustrations and photographs, the book has some lovely recipes and ideas from making your own incense to what I was really excited about the natural dye section, which I'm looking forward to having a go at soon, the instructions for the various projects within the book are fairly accessible and easy to follow and understand. A few ingredients are somewhat niche specialist where you'd either have to buy online from a specialist shop or your local hippie type shop (e.g. frankincense resin) but otherwise the ingredients are easy to get ahold of.

A good and beautiful reference book, I was amaze of the inside of it. It's special to see so much witch book, and in some way being so different. I do make my magic work alone and special to me but I like seeing what others can do!

This was an unusual one. I like the witchy aesthetic as the next person, but it required some mindshift on my part to read about magical tools while the author referred to us as actual witches and practitioners. The recipes seemed interesting, and also like a lot of work: if you have the time and will, then I'm sure it can be great fun to make them! I'll probably only ever try out the butter candles.

The pictures however are divine, pieces of art every single one of them. Bewitching, really.

A Great Book of Information

The author provides quite a lot of information on the background of witchcraft, what it is or isn’t. She states that it’s important to remember that witchcraft, even as a practice that resists definition, is still distinct from other forms of
magic.

The author states that it is her hope that readers will explore many botanical crafts and procedures as an effort toward
forging direct, allied relationships with plants and your local environment. She, further, states that through readers' experimenting with making incense, natural dyes, inks, papers, candles, oils and powders, that we will master the skills to craft our own magical tools.

The author provides many recipes and spells in this book, in hope that readers will be in touch with an ancestral language, in an effort toward healing our severed relationship with the spirits of the natural world. She discusses many of the aspects of witchcraft, such as setting up an altar, tools needed in your craft, incenses, how to make incenses, and the tools needed to do so. A few of the recipes for incense that I favor are the recipes for:
1. Home Blessing Incense
2. Purification Incense Cones
3. Full moon Incense Pearls
4. Hekate Incense Pearls

Additionally, I enjoyed very much the information on how to make the various ink colors, and the section on how to make oils, the tools needed and some recipes for making various oils, such as:
1. The All Purpose Anointing oi
2. The Lunar Anointing Oil
3. Rose Oil

I love the cleansing salt recipe.

Additionally, this book is a treasure grove of valuable information beneficial to nor only beginners in the craft, but advanced practitioners as well. This is a gem stone, sharing its information with anyone truly interested in craft.

Great Book to have in your reference library. Highly recommend.

What a gorgeous and informative book this is. It feels like a labor of love on many counts. Clearly all the information gathered here has taken a lifetime to accumulate, the photographs are evocative and rich with meaning, and the writing is elegant and clear, both friendly yet scholarly.

I like to craft. I like it more than I am good at it. And right now I'm in a simple, "easy win" stage of casual crafting. This is not the book for me, at the moment. This is for the dedicated practitioner. The person who wants to put a bit of themselves into every aspect of their work. What a resource this is. Oh, the things you will learn. I have wanted to dabble in making my own incense, oils, powders, and especially inks. In the past, I have crafted my own candles and paper and I can attest her methods are sound and reliable and will yield excellent results. So, even though I have enjoyed merely reading this book, I am more than comfortable in giving it 5 stars.

This book is a mood! It really is. I am so grateful for Netgalley and the publishers for letting us all get sneak peaks at books before they're published, but also discovering new writers that we may not have heard of previously.

Very informative and interesting book. I highly write recommend it. Very educational. Very enjoyable

A beautifully photographed exploration of lots of crafts that would especially appeal to those beginning their journey into witchcraft. It encourages the reader to create their own magic rather than buying ready-made options, therefore imbuing the creator’s own magic and intent into the end result.
Thanks NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in return for an honest review.

I loved the art/photography in this book and how easy and approachable the author makes the process of creating magical tools for practice. We need more books like this one, which brings witch-crafting to a very base level and makes it easy to understand while inspiring at the same time.

The witches Workshop is a lovely book it is beautifully photographed and put together and I'm sure if you had a witchy background this will be a must have edition to your library, but as a layman the list of ingredients was mind boggling and I really wouldn't know where to start. But thank you to netgalley and the publishers for giving me a chance to read through it.

This guide provides a captivating journey into the realm of magical crafting. As someone drawn to both the mystical and the creative, I was immediately captivated by this book.

What sets this book apart is its thorough exploration of magical crafting. Covering everything from natural dyes and inks to oils and incense, the author encourages readers to delve into their creativity and forge a deeper connection with nature.

The book's layout is both visually appealing and well-organized, catering to beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. Clear, step-by-step instructions are accompanied by stunning imagery, igniting inspiration with each turn of the page.

I particularly appreciated the emphasis on natural ingredients and sustainable practices. Each project, whether it's homemade inks or handcrafted candles, reflects a profound respect for the earth and its resources. It's more than just crafting tools; it's about fostering a profound bond with nature and the energies that envelop us.

Thank you NetGalley for this advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.