In a workshop that’s a refuge from the world, Dorothea Campbell uses her hands. Her right hand turns a crank, or manipulates dozens of needles arranged in a circle. With her left, she holds tightly to ...

3D printing socks isn’t really a thing yet. You’d end up with scratchy plastic garments that irritate your feet no end. You can easily 3D print all kinds of nifty little mechanisms, though, so why not ...

There are a pair of maps on the wall in the front office at Erlbacher Gear & Machine Works in Cape Girardeau. One is a map of the United States. The other a map of the world. Both are adorned with ...

While I was doing research for my book, Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town (which features Guelph), I came across the story of how women across Canada knitted various items for the ...

This story is part of a Streetwise series on “How It’s Made” in Sheboygan. The series will help give a behind-the-scenes look at how businesses and crafters across Sheboygan County make the goods you ...

I do a bit of knitting from time to time, and I've been wanting to knit some socks for a while, but I didn't want to actually knit the socks, if that makes sense. My hands aren't always great at doing ...