On Super Sunday, a 150-year-old tradition of painstaking craftsmanship is put on display in New Orleans’ streets with suits made of delicate beads and billowing ostrich feathers.

A caramel-colored bar of beeswax looks inconspicuous until Dana Daylight shows how all those hair-fine ridges were etched across its surface. She takes it and runs it along a generous stretch of ...

Learn how to sew a cooling neck wrap with a free sewing pattern. This summer sewing project is easy, and it keeps you cool in hot weather. What do you do when you are outside in the heat? Are you ...

Joann fabrics is closing all 11 of its New Jersey stores over the next few months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in one year. The fabric and crafting supplies company will ...

Why do beads — which are nothing more than baubles of various sizes and shapes with holes in them like buttons — stir up such an interest among collectors and designers? I say it's the beauty of the ...

A version of this story ran in the March 2014 issue. For the past year, 44-year-old Darold Gordon has worked late into the night at his sewing table, threading beads, rhinestones, pearls and plumes to ...

Sometimes you want to make something that's quick and easy, something that you can whip up in a couple of minutes (a la this little purse). Other times you feel like something hefty, something you can ...