In the mountains near Leavenworth, just about everybody has a sign in their home. It’s a running joke that you’re not allowed to own a rustic cabin without an inspirational message posted somewhere ...

ERIKA: HERE IN LOWELL, THIS FORMER TEXTILE MILL IS HOME TO DOZENS OF ARTIST STUDIOS. IT'S WHERE JOHN WELCH WORKS ALOAN IN AN AIRY WORKSHOP. JOHN FRANCIS DESIGNS ISIS H CREATION AND HIS PASSION. >> ...

Perhaps because it neighbours the ancient civilisation of Gandhara, traditional wood-carving is still popular in Rawalpindi, where craftsmen prefer hand-carved wooden products. However many machines ...

When winter settles over the olive groves, Palestinian artisans and their families venture out to the hills, delicately pruning branches from the ancient trees to form a base for their craft. Here, in ...

It starts as 48x4x8 block of wood, but when Norman Altman sits behind his work bench in Syracuse, he sees Santa Claus in the raw material. Each year, Norman Altman hand-carves and paints wooden Santa ...

A Livingston County Sheriff's Department detective is following his passion for music by turning 100-year-old reclaimed wood from deconstructed Detroit homes into hand-carved guitars. Curt Novara, ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...

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