I was delighted to see the Duchess of Cornwall wearing a Rainbow Loom bracelet on her Canadian tour (pictured below). Since Camilla is the grandmother of a seven-year-old girl, my suspicions are that ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bracelets and other trinkets made on the wildly popular Rainbow Loom—a toy that ...

The other day, my seven-year-old son asked me for a Rainbow Loom. If you don’t know what that is, you don’t have children under age twelve. The Rainbow Loom is the toy of the season, a contraption for ...

Sharon Lighton, the owner of Anana Gifts, sells kits for children to make rubber band bracelets, which are a very popular trend right now. She has bought 14.7 million rubber bands to sell at her store ...

The Rainbow Loom trend, some have said, is over. The plastic loom with the tiny, colorful rubber bands used by tweens to make bracelets, rings, even flip-flops, was declared dead last Christmas, due ...

A company that sells Rainbow Loom, a toy that transforms colorful rubber bands into intricate bracelets, key chains, rings and accessories, rose from humble beginnings to a profitable pop culture ...

Rainbow loom bracelet addiction starting slowly. [photo: flickr user angryjuliemonday] Gone are the days of Pokemon battles in-between class, Rainbow Loom bracelets have arrived in New York schools ...

Beloved by kids and the bane of parents and teachers, Loom Bands – or Rainbow Loom - is the playground craze that has taken over the planet. But what are they, and where did they come from? Chances ...

Gender-neutral craft: Garrett Fill, left, 10, and Conor Flanagan, right, 11, during a Rainbow Loom class at Learning Express Toys. (Andrew A. Nelles/Chicago Tribune/MCT) TONI Notarangeli thought she’d ...

The loom is intended for “6 and up,” but Brycen, the aforementioned nephew, is persuasive, and in my family, there is always a fallback position: Joan will figure it out. Sure enough, I stopped in for ...