NEW HAVEN >> We’re assembled in Yale’s British Art Center on a June morning with publicists, press, museum principals and — it turns out — a few craftspeople whose skill and art are distilled into ...

Miniature crochet hooks, tiny paintbrushes, crafting tweezers, and glue with a fine nozzle are a few essentials to consider ...

Andrea Boltresz knows a lot about books: how to procure them, sell them and, more recently, she has been making them, accidentally setting two precedents and catching the attention of collectors ...

Her first miniature book was about an inch and a half tall. It was a prayer book bound in ivory with a velveteen spine and satin endpapers. Caroline Brandt puts the year of publication at around 1850.