Craftsmanship

Between 1933 and 1945, Jewish art collectors in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe were systematically forced into exile, deported, or murdered by the Nazis. The Nazis forced Jewish art collectors to ...

From the late 19th century through to around the 1940s, everyday shopkeepers across England advertised their businesses on ...

Life can be hard. When faced with fear, crisis, and hardship, some Buddhists call out to Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara ...

There it sits on a bookshelf in the den, that 150-year-old King James Bible once owned by your ...

PARIS—The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there's a "50 ...

Josiah Wedgwood spent his life perfecting the art of pottery, establishing 260 years ago the company that bears ...

The decorations and special objects that are unique to one’s family are a key part of holiday traditions. They ...

Until some 40 years ago, traditional Maori music was thought to be all but lost. Then Brian Flintoff, ...

Scribe Patricia Lovett writes calligraphy and paints illuminations at her home studio in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. But she ...

NEW YORK—The oldest book that Jeff Peachey has worked on was a papyrus fragment from over 2,000 years ...

Rich with culture and brimming with history, Kyoto is often considered the heart of Japan. A stroll through ...

Everyone who enters the Scarpelli Mosaici workshop in Florence, Italy, is told the story of “commesso Fiorentino” or ...

Today, Bowne is home to 34 presses, 18 of which are in regular use, largely from the late ...

The handcrafting process is often slow because it isn't only about the skills, but the heart the creator ...

Nestled near the Northern Japanese Alps of Gifu prefecture, Hida Takayama (known locally as Hida) is one of ...

The photographs show an almost quintessential French landscape, where a vast expanse of green grass disappears into a ...

The qipao’s sleek and elegant form is an image widely associated with Chinese style and aesthetic. And beyond ...

It could be something out of “Mission Impossible.” Only under armed guard, chaperoned by a conservator, and kept in ...

Corban Te Aika, curator of human history (Matauranga Maori) at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, shares ...

Slowly, slowly, years of erosion gently unlock pieces of greenstone into the Te Wai Pounamu: the greenstone waters ...

The Sunshine State plays host to "Knights," an exhibition at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, ...

“Wow! I didn’t see that coming.” For over 40 years, these have been the words that fore-edge painter ...

What do watchmaking, commercial papermaking, piano making, and scissor making all have in common? They’re all traditional heritage ...

A sadly common refrain about young people today is that they are coddled, entitled, self-absorbed, and tech-addicted. But as ...

Traditional craftsmanship is diminishing worldwide. We wouldn’t let our museum collections decay and disappear, so why do we ...

A 17th-century dolls’ house must number among the more unusual source “texts” through which we can find out ...

String instruments are exceptional pieces of artwork that seem to be forever imprinted by their past, and maybe ...