1 An Afghan woman engages in Nuristani wood carving at a workshop in Herat on November 29. A group of four women has dedicated themselves to preserving an ancient tradition of wood carving found ...

Discover the art of crafting elegant wedding rings using the ancient Japanese Mokume Gane technique in this detailed tutorial. This unique method, used for over 300 years to create stunning sword ...

Ancient Hunting Kit Found: The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave in West Texas, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America.

Seoul, South Korea, January 1959: Sanding wood and applying a special plaster, these older orphans of the Seoul Police and Soldiers Orphanage are learning lacquerware manufacture, a centuries-old ...

Some 500,000 years ago in central Africa, ancient human relatives chopped down trees and transformed the wood into digging tools, wedges and what might just be the world’s earliest-known wooden ...

Ancient crafts: feathers, ... There are many crafts classified as ‘endangered’ in Britain, but one that has had a renaissance in the last 50 years is the ancient tradition of thatching.

At risk of redevelopment the wood was crucially designated as ‘ancient woodland’, after maps from the seventeenth-century proved that the area had been continuously wooded for more than 400 years.