"It’s a fleam, most likely used for bleeding horses — not people, where a thumb lancet tended to be used. Bloodletting was as ...

"Rotary wafer switch design, maintenance, and repair kit. The various metal bits fit into the flat, non-conductive wafers ...

Many of us have a bread box in the kitchen. It’s usually a simple, purely utilitarian affair made of metal or plastic; ...

Annie LaVoie is a taxidermist and a bone carver whose own brush with death inspires the avant-garde jewelry she creates today. She uses stone, bone and organic remnants to fashion the pieces of her ...

The statue’s torso was crafted with a robe and sash, carved jewelry, and a left hand crossing the chest—“an uncommon representation in Khmer (Cambodian) art.” A Roman Statue’s Severed ...

Making things with our own hands is becoming a lost art. In the age of mass production, things made by skilled craftspeople ...

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. A wooden box on display at Rudyard Kipling’s former home in the U.K. turned out to be a “very rare ...

Unique miniatures can really set the stage for a great Dungeons and Dragons session, so we were naturally drawn to these brilliant, handmade, handpainted wooden DnD minis by amateur woodcarver Johnny ...