Specialty World Travel of Boston has designed a tour for people who like folk art, handcrafted beads and glass, and embroidery.

This self-taught dollmaker, painter and folk artist leaves this kind of quilted impression. She picked up an embroidery needle and thread 20 years ago to ease her grief over her mother’s death.

CHENNAI: Embroidery is an embellishment or ornamentation done on the surface of the textile. Like folk art, embroidery speaks a language of its own and a discerning eye will trace the or ...

Jordan Nassar is taking the centuries-old art and turning it into poetic depictions of some of the most deeply contested land in the world.

Shanxi’s folk embroidery is known for its unique art, simple patterns, colors, compositions, and diverse, delicate needlework. The embroidery is mainly done by rural women and is most ...

Guangdong embroidery has a history of more than 1,000 years, and is one of the four major schools of embroidery in China. But the Cantonese folk art has languished of late, and only a concerted ...

Some of the most interesting folk art phenomena and artifacts are presented in beautiful color photographs. They include sculptures and paintings, architecture, interiors of rural homes, road-side ...

For the past four years, Gomez has showcased her colcha embroidery at a folk art market in China called the Belt and Road International Forum for Cultural Heritage Cooperation and Exchange ...

In this part of Hungary -- wedged between the outer edge of the Carpathian Mountains and the Great Hungarian Plain -- Matyo, a folk-art embroidery traditionally found on the clothing and other ...

Tate Britain's show of British folk art features objects that range from the pleasing to the mundane and the grotesque, says Zoe Pilger. But without context, it is more a collection of odds and ...

Museums can be more than just a place to look at stuff. This weekend, the Washington State History Museum will be a place to see people doing stuff-specifically master folk artists demonstrating ...