Family heirlooms are hard to part with, especially if they've been passed down for generations. On the other hand, some heirlooms are difficult to maintain and may be worth letting go — particularly ...

This could probably be any of our grandmothers at work. George Grantham Bain Collection [PD], via Wikimedia Commons. In our hackspace, we’ve opened a textile room in the last month. We have high hopes ...

Debby Parise from Glyndon finds old sewing machines (like this hand crank-operated British Harrodia, which was originally sold at Harrods department store in London from 1920 to 1925), cleans them, ...

The luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton misled the public by suggesting its expensive leather bags were hand-made, according to the advertising watchdog. Louis Vuitton, part of the LVMH group, ran ...