While I sit at my desk with my laptop open, my 10-year old daughter is beside me on the floor with spools of elastic thread, scissors and trays of beads spread out around her. Like many girls her age, ...

Aside from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour merch (especially that blue crewneck sweater), there’s something special that fans are taking home from each tour stop as souvenirs: friendship bracelets. Swifties ...

Whether we’re exchanging locks of hair or bright plastic beads, humans have been finding ways to honor our friends for millennia. Mariale and Paula Nuñez, sisters from Peru, show off their friendship ...

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JUPITER, Fla. − When Kellie Gerardi glanced down at Earth from space for the first time a year ago, her jaw dropped. It was a moment she couldn’t have prepared for. One thought ran through her mind – ...

For most people, the last time they tried to thread craft beads onto plastic string was at summer camp. Swifties have changed that. Beaded friendship bracelets are now a ubiquitous sighting at Taylor ...

CHICAGO — Kelly Jacobs, a delegate from Mississippi, made 1,000 sparkly beaded friendship bracelets reading “Swifty Voter” and “Kamala” to hand out at the Democratic National Convention. She started ...

Friendship bracelets have been a mainstay of middle-school fashion for decades. From knotted threads to plastic lanyards to interlocking charms, each generation seems to find its own unique way of ...