A violin maker wonders about the origin of a practice in his trade known as purfling, where a black and white line is inlaid into a tiny channel along the edge of the instrument. Martha traces the word back to the Latin filum, meaning “line” or...
fuwari n.— «The Fuwari embroidery technique is the first major change in the industry in thirty years. Fuwari is a Japanese word for “soft and furry”; no pictures can do justice to how it looks and feels in person. There is no backing required and...