Tom collaborates with guest John Ryan to craft authentic reproduction Shaker oval boxes. Host Tom McLaughlin collaborates with guest John Ryan to craft authentic reproduction Shaker oval boxes out of ...

A show at ICA Philadelphia joins a surge of Shaker-inspired projects: films, dances, a museum’s expansion. Refracted through ...

Keith Dickson pulled a thin slab of cherry wood from a pile wrapped tight with plastic and placed it in a long rectangular box filled with boiling water. “Some nights I bend 50 to 100 bands of wood,” ...

Steve Strouse, of Bellefonte, makes Shaker boxes from local salvaged wood. CDT/Nabil K. Mark Steve Strouse does more than make Shaker-style boxes in the workshop behind his Benner Township home. He ...

PITTSFIELD -- Walnut arms curve smoothly in a chandalier. A wooden clasp glides apart, and a brown oak box opens to show a row of teabags. Shakers did drink tea. But here with a sewing table and ...

Were there left-handed Shaker craftsmen? Collectors have noticed that the famous Shaker boxes were made with "fingers" that point right or left. The Shakers are a religious order with communities in ...