Specialty World Travel of Boston has designed a tour for people who like folk art, handcrafted beads and glass, and embroidery. The tour, from Sept. 13 to 27, begins in Prague, Czech Republic ...

She picked up an embroidery needle and thread 20 years ago to ease her grief over her mother’s death. ... “What she’s been doing has made me look at art and at folk art differently.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Jordan Nassar is taking the centuries-old art and turning it into ... including some made in collaboration with Palestinian women whose craft is the folk art of tatreez embroidery—the ...

“We see colcha today as more of a decorative art form,” says Deputy State Historian Nicolasa Chávez, former curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Museum of International Folk Art.

Asha Patil initiated Banjara Kasuti to preserve Lambani embroidery, a vibrant art form of the Lambani community in Karnataka. Sandur Lambani embroidery, with a GI tag, holds cultural importance.

Steve and Amy Slotin operate the Slotin Auction, which many consider ground zero for folk art collectors. Their Spring Self-Taught Masterpiece auction is coming up April 22-23 at their Buford ...

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 ...

Embroidery has always been a form of creative ... Lesia and her colleagues registered World Vyshyvanka Day in 2015 as a non-profit dedicated to safeguarding the folk art and culture around the ...

A compendium of knowledge about Polish folk art. The book reveals the true nature of "Polish exotica," which was an inspiration to many Polish artists. Some of the most interesting folk art phenomena ...