When Jim Peregrin and Danté Hunter take their hand-woven wares to indie craft festivals, they’re often asked, “Two guys make these?” Yes, they do. On two looms in a small room in their apartment, The ...

FARGO-Lisa Cook can't sit still. The 49-year-old Fargo woman has knitted and spun fibers to keep her hands occupied. But one particular artform wove itself into her heart. Three years ago, Cook ...

Rugs are not sexy. Or at least they hadn’t been for two centuries — until Christopher and Suzanne Sharp of The Rug Company came along to disrupt the industry. “Most rugs were made by ‘tufting,’ which ...

In the town of Sanders, Ariz., about 40 miles west of Gallup, N.M., the two-story R.B. Burnham & Company serves as community center, trading post, pawn shop and grocery. With 10 employees on the ...

Afghanistan has a tradition of weaving rugs that goes back thousands of years. On the tables of tribal leaders and under the knees of humble farmers in prayer, the rugs show birds, flowers, and sheep.

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, ...

Rebecca Arkenberg returns to Newtown for some educational family fun this weekend. A textile artist and art historian from Stratford, she'll give a weaving demonstration on her portable loom and tell ...

Marilyn Greaves’ Fair Oaks home is filled with Navajo items that she has collected or made. One of her larger pieces is this Two Grey Hills-inspired rug in her living room. This weekend, she will ...

Dianna Soehren is helping Milan Village Arts School create a dedicated weaving studio with a goal to increase the types of classes offered. Mary Ann Nelson, of Alberta, works on weaving a rag rug ...

The rug looked almost plain, a furry, off-white blotch in a room otherwise filled with richly colored pieces. The intricate patterns of the dozens of other rugs in the fall auction at the Smoki Museum ...

When a woman wants to retire from a long and distinguished career so she can enjoy being a grandma, that usually doesn’t qualify as big news. But when that woman is Ruby Hubbard, master weaver at ...