Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Some things are not hereditary or acquired simply by assimilation. My mother braids palm during ...

There's just so much to love about spring: warmer weather, blooming flowers, and of course, all those special days that come with the season of rebirth and life—looking at you Easter! Thanks to ...

The retired administrative assistant who moved to this area from Illinois credited her parents with teaching her palm-braiding. She is familiar with the basket-weave and cross patterns from palms, but ...

NEW HAVEN — The women at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church are back in force this year, braiding blessed palm into crosses. “Two years ago was a skeleton year. It was just Jeanie and Peggy,” said Olga ...

Decades have passed since Ronnie Jordan was a little girl in Brooklyn getting underfoot while her mother and aunt prepared dinner on Palm Sunday. Their solution to getting Jordan out of their way was ...

Spotlight A weave and a prayer: South Jersey woman braids more than crosses for Palm Sunday Luanne DeComa says the craft is both versatile and teachable By SARA TRACEY, Staff Writer Mar 29, 2015 0 1 ...

Fidelis Hoffmann holds the supple green palm in one hand. With the other she begins folding. In less than two minutes, her fingers have shaped the palm into a cross. Once it dries out, it will ...