Ande Axelrod returned home from a vacation in Ecuador with a grocery bag full of beads. "Let's see what we can do with this," she said, plunking her sack on the table in front of her longtime ...
During World War I and World War II, some of the buttons on U.S. military uniforms were carved out of tagua, a durable white nut about the size of a golf ball that grows on a South American palm tree.