The quilt my great-grandmother made for me last Christmas — a gorgeous white-and-blue blanket with hand-embroidered flowers across the surface and detailed stitching on the backing — is one of my ...
A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...
With Paper Mario: The Origami King, developer Intelligent Systems has once again found a clever new angle from which to explore its spinoff papercraft universe, pitting Mario against an army of ...
For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing on Juneteenth. "It's what I love to do," she told NPR in a phone ...
While we all know summer in the South calls for a seasonal wardrobe change, it’s also essential to swap your bedding for lightweight options to beat the heat when high temperatures set in. If you’ve ...
A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.
Inside what initially seems like a well-appointed quilt shop with bolts of fabrics and quilt-making equipment are a few rooms devoted to the museum-quality display of quilts. It’s there that, on April ...
The Paul Family Quilt (1830-35), on display in "Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories," was made for a four-poster bed. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1812, Catherine Paul moved from Greenwich, ...
What’s new at Costco this February? Quite a bit, actually! There are more than 200 new arrivals at the warehouse club at the time of writing this piece across clothing, appliances, grocery and more ...
What’s new at Costco this February? Quite a bit, actually! There are more than 200 new arrivals at the warehouse club at the time of writing this piece across clothing, appliances, grocery and more ...