HANDWOVEN 
Recycling time:The Maine Float-Rope Co. – A History of Helping(0)
The Maine Float-Rope Co. is promoting a history of helping. We help save whales and other marine life, provide financial assistance to Maine lobstermen, and protect the environment.
Three Difficult Problems — Float-rope is used by lobstermen to tether multiple traps together on the ocean floor. The problem with float-rope is that it can entangle whales, [...]
Hand-made African scarves help families
by GEORGEA KOVANIS
The hand-woven scarves being sold at Optik Birmingham have a story behind them that’s as interesting as the scarves are to look at.
In 2000, Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills began raising money for Namtenga, an impoverished village in the West Africa country of Burkina Faso, where a Cranbrook parent worked while in the [...]
Weavers and spinners show and sale – Canada
By LYNN REES LAMBERT
The Kingston Handloom Weavers and Spinners will fill the top floor of their new home at 623 King St. W (the old St. John House) for the annual Show and Sale Friday to Sunday, Nov. 13-15. Dorothy Young and Bridget Lewis — and dozens of other spinners and weavers — will present [...]
Craft talk:Meet four women whose fashions are both original and meant to last
By Christine G.K. LaPado
Anita O’Harra’s name has the exotic ring of an old-school Hollywood movie star. “The second ‘R’ is for ‘royalty,’ ” she joked of the unusual spelling. “That’s what my uncle always used to say.”
O’Harra, who lives in Chico, is part of a growing crop of local fashion designers following [...]
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