Behind the Scenes Travel Articles

Visiting Morocco? Discover handmade rugs, leather goods, andcobalt-blue ceramics — and how to buy directly from theartisans and women’s cooperatives who make them…

The most useful travel hacks often involve ingenious ways to deal with technology while on the road. Other hacks involve clever laundry tricks, or recreating…

There’s a surprising variety of textiles, clothes, and art to buy in Uzbekistan!
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On BTSA tours we’ll sample delicious foods everywhere. Restaurants are immaculate and serve generous plates of fresh salads, skewers,dumplings, and soups…

Guatemalan women create spectacular weaving and embroidery with colors, motifs and pattern arrangements characteristic of their communities. Stunning embroidery in myriad versions and degrees of complexity adorn their clothing, either in embellished bodices and necklines or decorative joining strips called randas…

Uzbekistan is famous for intricate embroidery. The word “suzani” means needlework, but the word is typically used for wall-hangings. Nowadays Uzbek women adorn jackets, pillow covers and purses with finely embroidered designs too…