About two years ago, Brooklyn artist Doug Johnston got an itch to learn traditional basket-weaving techniques, so he did what any reasonable man hunting for tips on ancient crafts might do: He scoured ...

The Maude Kerns Art Center is celebrating the opening of new exhibit "Weaving with Nature: The Art of Basketry" with an opening reception Friday night. Featuring the works of Donna Sakamoto Crispin, ...

Sunny days have a recognized positive effect on our physical and psychical well-being. Being able to get the most of each sun ray is nowadays a luxury – many people struggle with the stress of ever ...

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A family-owned weaving business in Pennsylvania that started out making silk hat bands in the 1920s is helping NASA build key components for the Orion spacecraft, which could help carry humans to Mars ...

Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning ...

The tools of her trade are simple, as in a stick and some threads. But what Sharon Ensminger creates with them are pieces of art straight out of her past. This native Middle Tennessean who just ...

ECHMIADZIN, Armenia: The smell of wool hangs thick in the air at a small studio in Armenia's ancient spiritual centre of Echmiadzin as women fashion carpets by hand using methods passed down through ...