Macrame — the art of hand-knotted textiles — is making a comeback. If you lived through the ’70s, this may not knot come as great news. Perhaps you imagined those ubiquitous macrame owls had gone the ...

THE RESURGENCE OF two American handicrafts last popular in the era of H.R. Pufnstuf—macramé and free-form weaving—may make certain people want to fashion themselves a noose. But the design world, high ...

The lark's head. The square. The horizontal double half-hitch. A group of crafters eager to learn each knot listened carefully during a recent workshop near Minneapolis' Loring Park, a row of spooled ...