Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the beauty and wellness space and the women shaping it. Last week, in the hours and days immediately following a ...

At the spring High Point Market — the semiannual furnishings and decor trade show held in High Point, North Carolina — trend forecasters, interior designers and furnishings makers gathered to offer a ...

The first time Sarah Corbett picked up a cross-stitch she was on a train to Glasgow, Scotland. Her hands were shaking and her breath was shallow. As she worked out how to do cross-stitch, she became ...

Colleen Haraden-Gorski uses her embroidery skills these days to embellish quilts made by students at school and community-center workshops on themes of social justice and working together to make a ...

What do knitted pink pussy hats, visible mending and those white, flower-festooned ghost bike memorials have in common? They’re all acts of “craftivism.” And what is craftivism, you ask? It’s crafting ...

Craftivism is a form of activism centered on practices of craft - or what can traditionally be referred to as "domestic arts", including yarn-bombing, cross-stitch, quilting, sewing and mask-making.

Making and crafting for activist causes has gained an enthusiastic following (Credit: Craftivist Collective) Twenty years after "craftivism" was born, Future Planet traces its threads through the ...