Nine weeks ago—for reference, those were the innocent days when canceling March Madness still felt apocalyptic and surreal—an Evansville hospital issued a public plea for homemade cotton face masks.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As health authorities begin to recommend the general public wear face masks when venturing outside the home, people across the country are getting creative with ways to cover their ...

Steve Engel repairs sewing machines for individuals and companies, nearly all of whom are now focused on making face masks. Courtesy Steve Engel. While businesses and industries across the state have ...

Regina Bohn shows some of the hundreds of masks she has sewn at home. Regina Bohn of Hamden with some of the face masks she has sewn for donation. Volunteers for MakeHaven, a New Haven maker space, ...

As shoppers scavenge to find toilet paper and other quarantine essentials, some crafters who are making protective masks said they struggle to find another necessary item: elastic. With protection ...

Hapenney got into serious mask making with three colleagues at Joann Fabrics last spring during the early weeks of the pandemic, partially because of an emergency need for personal protective ...

After sitting idle for several decades, a nearly 100-year-old sewing machine has been put to good use during the Covid-19 pandemic. Giselle Williams’ hairstyling and knitting businesses came to a ...

With overrun hospitals facing an acute shortage of masks, people are pulling out their sewing machines to fill the void. By David Enrich Rachel Abrams and Steven Kurutz They are scrounging for fabric, ...

Etsy seller Beth Curtin closed her online shop in 2011, and didn’t plan to look back. But at the end of March, Rochester resident Curtin, thinking of her kids, learned how to make small cloth masks ...

American face mask manufacturers are warning that they will soon go broke without government support, potentially ceding domestic mask production amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. Private companies and ...

A masked Dr. Fauci bobblehead sat on the conference room table inside the Virginia Beach headquarters of Premium-PPE recently, crowded by boxes of masks, remnants of a meeting with Rep. Elaine Luria ...