Sometimes we wish we were artists with sheetmetal. Sure, we can make a bracket and weld a floorpan in place, but we're in awe watching someone hammer and massage a flat piece of steel into a complex ...

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Wafa, dressed in a clinical white coat and framed by myriad bottles and jars, is explaining the painstaking method of squeezing out argan oil. The technique is time-honoured in Morocco, and in this ...

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KUKES, AlbaniaKUKES, Albania — Hate Ora has been weaving carpets and rugs for more than half a century, since learning the craft as a child by sneaking into her aunt’s workshop. Ora, 64, is now ...

PRAGUE, September 4, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- An artisan lightly taps her wooden mallet to tamp down another row of just-completed, hand-tied knots. To her rhythm, a long, richly red carpet decorated with ...