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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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In Western culture, the perception of weaving as “women’s work” can be traced back to Penelope, the loyal wife of Homer’s wandering Odysseus who cleverly put off her insistent suitors for years by ...

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 ...