Within the stunningly decorated wooden walls of an immense temple in Kyoto, you'll find an unusual artifact of human hair ...

This is how rope is made. These ropes are made from thousands of nylon fibers that are finer than human hair, but stronger. To make rope, yarns wind around aluminum cylinders pulled by a turning ...

This rope of yak hair, nearly 6m (20ft) long was hand woven by Afghan people from the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. I received it for Christmas 2009 from my son Chris Philipson. He bought it ...