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To mark Wanderlust ’s ‘Year of Culture’, our new series on the arts, crafts and traditions inscribed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list begins by looking at why the ‘Portuguese blues’ still offers a direct line to Portugal’s soul

Why homeowners are rediscovering the traditional practice of decorating with tapestries

Bring joyful layers of intrigue and character to an interior with vintage and antique textiles, whether unique cushions, a pretty quilt or old linen tea towels, says Kerryn Harper-Cuss

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

After the FA lifted their ban on women playing at Football League grounds, England’s Lionesses played their first international in 1972 – two years later, Liz Deighan won her first cap against France

Several decades on from her primary school days, hand weaver and textile designer Llio James still remembers one particular lesson. She grew up in the small village of Talybont, close to Aberystwyth,