Article: N.H. duo weaves a business venture in Nepal.(ENTREPRENEURS)

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There are plenty of interesting economic globalization tales of how Granite State businesses found an unlikely international partner or an untapped foreign market. But some stories are more we-opening than others, and few, if any, end up in a joint business venture between a pair of New Hampshire-based artists and a workshop in Nepal --and a business trip that coincided with a nonviolent political revolution.

Such is the case of Lesley Hansard and Rebecca Welsh, who have worked together for more than a dozen years creating wildly exotic felt hats and scarves--what they call "wearable art." They have participated in major juried ...

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