Beloved by kids and the bane of parents and teachers, Loom Bands – or Rainbow Loom - is the playground craze that has taken over the planet. But what are they, and where did they come from? Chances ...

The Rainbow Loom trend, some have said, is over. The plastic loom with the tiny, colorful rubber bands used by tweens to make bracelets, rings, even flip-flops, was declared dead last Christmas, due ...

Two years after going into business, Rainbow Loom inventor Cheong Choon Ng was nearing the millionth sale of his plastic-pronged device for weaving colorful rubber band bracelets. The $16.99 kits were ...

The loom is intended for “6 and up,” but Brycen, the aforementioned nephew, is persuasive, and in my family, there is always a fallback position: Joan will figure it out. Sure enough, I stopped in for ...

A girl works on a Rainbow Loom at her home in Wichita. The toy, engineered by two former Wichita State students, has become wildly popular and inspired several copycat versions. Travis Heying File ...

Toni Notarangeli thought she’d misheard when her 8-year-old son Angelo begged her for a toy he just had to have: a plastic loom that helps kids weave colorful rubber band bracelets. Angelo likes to ...