With the opening of Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg just a week away, local artisanal designer/makers are hunkered down pulling their offerings and displays together. In its ninth season, the huge market, in addition to offering used books, clothes, and just about everything else, also helped define its borough as the home of DIY. This weekend marks the final days of the Winter Flea + Somrgasburg at Industry City. Info Next Saturday, the Fort Greene Flea opens at 176 Lafayette Avenue Info and next Sunday, the DUMBO flea opens at the Manhattan Bridge Archway Plaza. Info

Today, DART offers a preview of some of Brooklyn’s crafty hotspots for creative types wanting to get into the game.

Brooklyn Glass, in Gowanus, offers courses for all levels of experience, including theme-based weekend workshops for families. Whether you are a jeweler wanting to make lampwork or mouth blown beads or a solid flameworker with ambition, you will feel at home in this 4,000 square foot studio. Info

The Textile Arts Center, founded in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens in 2009, offers 4-week classes, weekend intensives, introductory classes and project-based workshops in an array of craft disciplines. From weaving to basketmaking, fabric painting to block printing and beyond. TAC offers education on textile arts for students of all ages and levels of experience. Info  

EtsyLabs is offering an afternoon sewing class to current Etsy sellers. The website states, “You’ll learn to thread a machine, wind a bobbin, load the bobbin and sew a straight line. You’ll also learn important sewing vocabulary so that you will be able to follow along through patterns and other tutorials.” Six sessions in March and April. Info

Gowanus Print Lab is a community screen printing studio, established in 2010, that offers printing and design classes and studio rentals. For crafters wanting to bring takaway visibility to their offerings, a Mobile Screenprinting Lab is available, offering hands-on T-shirt printing wherever your event is taking place. Info

Above: Brooklyn Flea at Fort Green, photo: Roisin Wisneski