She'll take out her knife and cut enough sheets of white, lichen-covered birch bark to fill a few garbage bags before the day is over. "It's physically demanding," she says.

About eight years ago, the Moorhead woman started practicing the ancient art of birch bark biting. She was inspired to learn the technique after purchasing a biting of a dragonfly at an art show.

A northern Michigan resident makes canoes and other items the old-fashioned way. MIDLAND -- Michigan has abundant natural resources. For Jim A. Miller, such abundance is fuel for his art. The ...

Building a homemade birch bark casket rather than buying an expensive one is an artistic and sustainable alternative. A group of basket-making students make a casket for their teacher to use when ...

"Birch Bark Painting" will be on exhibit at the Springvale Public Library now through Oct. 28. The public is invited to view the exhibit whenever the library is open.

Birch-bark "chews" by Denise Lajimodiere are the show's most unusual and mystifying items, little designs she nips into paper-thin sheets of folded bark using her eye-teeth.

The students in the aboriginal arts program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design have gathered spruce roots, birch bark and ash and cedar wood to build the canoe. Using instructions handed ...

A version of this article appears in the December 5, 1931 issue of Science News.

So birch bark is waterproof and flammable — terrific for getting a fire going on a rainy day. In recent times this white bark, loaded with betulin, has sparked human interest for a different reason.