When you hear the word tweed, you probably think of professors in sports coats, likely with leather elbow patches, or a feminine jacket inspired by the cloth most popular for said coats with elbow patches (or maybe that's just me, LOL). But did you know that the word...

I'm sure you've read the parable of the workers in the vineyard--the one where the landowner goes out every three hours to bring in more workers and pays them all the same wage at the end of the day. The one in which the workers who'd been there all day thought they'd...

After looking at the history of chiffon last week, I thought it would be fun to take a peek at the history of other fabric names...and given that we'd firmly into autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere, I decided to start with some cozy, autumnal fabrics. So...

I'm no athlete, but occasionally I think back to gym class, and to that brief period when I ran cross-country. I remember the times when I or a friend would stumble and fall, maybe twist a knee or an ankle. I remember those flashes of pain and the thought of, "There...