Tradfest brings together the folk arts and kicks-off a season of festivals across the country.

BBC: New folk festival Tradfest launches in Edinburgh

The 20th-century flowering of Third World "folk arts" has been driven largely by Western demands, materials and technologies of production.

FORBES: Fifth Anniversary

The twenty-something artist became interested in dough sculpting after visiting a folk-arts exhibition in Beijing about seven years ago.

CNN: Some Downsizing Works

Others are film, music, crafts and folk art, design, media arts and gastronomy.

UNESCO: Creative City of Literature

The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.

CNN: Revolutionary holidays in Williamsburg