This huge example of recycling, a chair made with old, used wooden thread spools, sold for 90 at Thomaston Auction in Thomaston, Maine. It is 53 1/2 inches high by 23 inches wide. Recycling isn’t a ...

Devorah Sperber's Last Supper used 20,736 spools of thread. A description of her work: Devorah Sperber is a New York City based artist who recreates famous works of art using spools of thread. Sperber ...

Lili Nedved walks along a row of desks observing her students, who are hunched over their A-line skirt projects in silent concentration. The only sounds filtering through the airy space are the steady ...

In the old days when clothes were sewn and mended at home instead of bought ready-made, spools of thread were household essentials. You would see a spool cabinet in any country store, usually on the ...

Recycling isn't a new idea. Our ancestors reused bits of cloth for quilts, made clothing out of flour bags, and used old cigar boxes to make chip-carved picture frames and boxes. Their rule was "waste ...