We’re suckers for a recipe that’s half snack, half craft…as long as it’s foolproof to execute. (What can we say? We have a tender ego.) Luckily, these tie-dye sugar cookies require no special ...

I like baking sugar cookies. I like eating sugar cookies. But I don’t really like decorating them. It always starts out as a great adventure — buying enough butter to put every Wisconsin dairy cow ...

Duan Yinkai, an inheritor of the tie-dye technique, weaves cloth in a dyehouse in Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Dali, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 12, 2013. Duan learnt the tie-dye technique ...

Photo taken on Dec. 12, 2013 shows the radix isatidis, the plants used to make tie-dye products, in a dyehouse of Duan Yinkai, an inheritor of the tie-dye technique, in Bai Autonomous Prefecture of ...