Every Friday afternoon before Shabbat, S.Y. Agnon would prepare a sign to hang on his front door. Written in his iconic and almost illegible Hebrew cursive script, the sign read: “Here lives a Jew who ...

Dr. Abbey Sutton weaves a thread to the past, as she spins wool and cotton into yarn. A retired veterinarian, Abbey is married to Dr. Turner Sutton, a retired professor of plant pathology at N.C.

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...