Maayan Zilberman is an artist and the founder of candy brand Sweet Saba. She is currently working on new sculpture and developing a book about upcycled clothes for children. The first time I tried ...

A quality sewing machine is a time-saving device that is useful for making alterations, repairs, and stitching materials that are too tough to sew by hand. The best models have several features that ...

The sewing machine is a tool that many of us will have somewhere around our workshop. Concealed within it lies an intricate and fascinating mechanism. Some of us may have peered inside, but very few ...

Read more from Slate’s special issue on the future of food. In 2010, Ikea commissioned a report on the “future of the kitchen.” The final product sketched out three possibilities for the kitchen of ...