Archaeology reveals that humans started wearing clothes some 170,000 years ago, very close to the second-to-last ice age. Even now, though, most modern humans wear clothes that are only barely ...

LANCASTER − Those looking for clothing geared toward the local area may want to visit the new Hometown Apparel Screen Printing and Embroidering at 1122 N. Memorial Drive. Store owners Ben and Heidi ...

Yumiko Higuchi, trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Roost, $21.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-64547-410-4 This inviting guide from Japanese embroidery artist Higuchi (Seamless ...

For artist Selva de Carvalho, the act of embroidering has always prompted her to look at the “body of things”. In the works, presented by the Brazilian art gallery Karla Osorio at the fair, it feels ...

I met Kiya, a tall young girl looking younger than her actual age at one of the local markets embroidering traditional clothes at Shiromeda, Addis Ababa. She was quite busy carefully embroidering a ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Archaeology reveals that humans started wearing clothes some 170,000 years ...