Yang Fuxi has revived his family's traditional business, making bows and arrows from water buffalo horns and bamboo. His Manchu ancestors used the weapons to conquer China, but Yang is the last-known ...

When Joshua Hood looks at a Pacific yew tree, he sees more than just the beginnings of a bow. He sees a partnership that spans generations, a meditation on balance, tension and rest — a lifeway ...

Are bow makers in danger of disappearing? Will they suffer the same fate of those working with tortoiseshell, ivory or Brazilian rosewood? The music world is coming together to oppose Brazil's ...