The Alaska Native Customary Art Show at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention is a feast for the senses: Shoppers exchange greetings in English and a half-dozen Alaska Native languages, ...
Unlike fabric sewing machines, which hold and sew pieces horizontally, fur sewing machines hold pieces vertically between two wheels. The sewer must move the wheels at the same pace, or the fur will ...
Jenni Avins owns a red fox vest. It is simple, warm and, to many, hideously ugly for what it represents. To Ms Avins, though, it is not only thing of beauty, but the hard-earned product of hours of ...
Donna Salyers was all set to buy a fur coat-on sale, no less-when the guilt set in. So Salyers, a Cincinnatian who writes a nationally syndicated sewing column and stars in her own series of ...
A group of women write haiku at the 2018 Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Winter Workshop. The Talkeetna Mountains are in the background. (Photo by Steve Meyer) The pile of furs in the corner of the ...
Archaeologists identified the bones of fur-bearing animals used as sewing needles in early North American societies. University of Wyoming The idea behind using every part of an animal might have ...
A pair of women have teamed up to find a solution for those old fur coats in the back of many closets. Gail Pettinger of Victoria, B.C., is collecting the coats for Inuit women who’ll refashion them ...
A pair of women have teamed up to find a solution for those old fur coats in the back of many closets. Gail Pettinger of Victoria, B.C., is collecting the coats for Inuit women who’ll refashion them ...