KAWARAMACHI, Japan (AP) — Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls the size of an orange, a stitch at a time. At the center of the ...

Once, domestic arts were learned at grandmother’s knee or in home economics class. Today, crafters are looking across the globe for ideas and instruction. In Folk Art Embroidery (Thunder Bay, Sept.), ...

Resembling sea urchins plucked from the deep, these lanterns are in fact made from fabric that has been twisted, compressed, and bound into precise patterns using shibori, a traditional Japanese ...

Women sit quietly as they painstakingly stitch patterns on balls the size of oranges. At the centre of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the traditional Japanese craft of Sanuki kagari temari.

A pod-like sculpture emits otherworldly electronic sounds when human hands hover above its lacquered surfaces. A tearoom with ethereal red walls of safflower-dyed silk wraps around floating wood. And ...