Artist Alex Buchanan is an accomplished photographer, printmaker, painter and semiotician. But it is his sculptures, in which he utilizes complex knots and enormous segments and strands of rope, that ...

Kayla Levy is a writer particularly passionate about indoor plants and outdoor gear. She used to write about cities at Time Out (and she still enjoys writing about the Park Slope Food Co-op).

The ancient art of macrame is all over our feeds right now. Follow this step-by-step guide by macrame maker, Emily Otchie, to get to grips with knotting and weaving at home. Welcome to The Curiosity ...

ROPE: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization. By Tim Queeney. St. Martin’s Press. 336 pages. $27. Counter-intuitive as it seems, a knot makes a length of rope weaker, not ...