The standard laces on sneakers are fine—for the first few months, then they're prone to weathered looks and tricky knots. Upgrade your kicks with nautical rope, which can look pretty neat and is meant ...

Knotted rope with a distinctly nautical flair has emerged as a decorative desk accessory and doorstop in two recent home-design catalogs. Williams-Sonoma Home offers a 6-inch-diameter Rope Knot made ...

A version of this story ran in The Virginian-Pilot on Sept. 14, 2005. Hurricane or no, we’re in for a blow. Time to start thinking about how to secure the woodpile or lash the garbage cans to a tree.

Artist Alex Buchanan is an accomplished photographer, printmaker, painter and semiotician. But it is his sculptures, in which he utilizes complex knots and enormous segments and strands of rope, that ...