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Hekima Hapa runs around with her four children, teaches a sewing class in Brooklyn and ends her day by burning a little sage.

Gone are the days of dying eggs, filling Easter baskets full of goodies and pulling all-nighters to finish smocked dresses. I ...

BC Welfare, Handlooms, and Textiles Minister Savitha inaugurated a free tailoring training program for women at Vivekananda ...

I often give basic Singer sewing machines to kids for their birthdays, bar and bat mitzvahs and other celebrations. I believe a sewing machine is as indispensable today as a personal computer or ...

Some libraries offer more than books. Here's a surprising collection of useful items and educational resources that you can ...

Libraries matter,” writes Charlotte Maloney. “They changed my own life. As a librarian, I have seen them change the lives of ...

My mom died last year at age 103; an inscription on her high school diploma led me to reflect on how Iowa has changed, writes ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...

The dishwasher is broken. The repair man will take a while. I have taken to the sink again. There is a soldering sense of ...

Priscilla, an 1888 Oyster Sloop that's designated a National Historic Landmark , is getting a new mast, a new deck, a new ...