Some antique arts fade in popularity but are never truly lost. Embroidery is one of them. There are surviving examples of embroidered fabric that date back thousands of years. There is even evidence ...

As nights get longer and the days darker, it's no wonder so many holiday traditions involve lights, from the Hanukkah menorah ...

The art of adding mother-of-pearl inlay to lacquerware has been practiced in Korea for more than a thousand years. The Korean term for it is Najeonchilgi, from the words najeon, ...

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One of the most popular and often most expensive categories of collecting is known as design. Sometimes called modern or ...

By this time of the year, most of us in cooler climates have started wearing gloves. But gloves weren’t always relegated to wintry weather. In medieval Europe, they were a ...