When her daughter Kari moved from home into an apartment five years ago, Nancy Young decided it was time to rekindle an old flame . . . much to the pleasure of her family and friends. No, Nancy did ...

it is ironic that Thorndike Mills greets visitors to its new website with the words “the only true manufacturer of cloth braided rugs, just like your grandmother used to make,” because the company was ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — Pawtucket-based Colonial Mills is putting a modern spin on quintessential New England home decor. Braided rugs were a staple in colonial times, and apparently they're still ...

If you plan to attend the upcoming Michigan Fiber Festival and you already have a closet or basement filled with wool, you may be a fiber addict. But I'm not here to judge, folks. It takes one to know ...

There's only a small sign advertising Rapchinski Rugs at Dawn Rapchinski's home along Main Street, Ephrata, but over the last 20 years, she's hand-braided 389 rugs and chair pads. Rapchinski's ...

SOMERS, Mont. — So many skills that were once part of everyday life are becoming rarer or disappearing altogether. Maybe that's why one of the best gifts passed from one generation to the next is the ...

Roasting chestnuts on an open fire this winter wouldn't be nearly as inviting without a braided rug to sit on. The old-style rugs that were traditionally formed by braiding three strips of cloth and ...

THE AIRPLANE WAS invented here. So was basketball, the zipper, the cheeseburger and braided rugs. A. Leon Capel, founder of Capel Rugs, produced plow lines, but aft er the invention of the tractor, ...

TILTON, N.H. (AP) - In 1968, after 15 years of work, Janice Jurta’s father-in-law, George, got a patent for a machine that braided the wool needed for rugs. With his new invention in hand, George ...