Zhang Chongsheng, a master of straw art, uses common wheat straws to create works of art in Jinan, East China's Shandong province. [Photo/IC] Wheat is a staple food in North China, and wheat straw is ...

WHITETAIL — Likely few farmers have looked at a wheat field after harvest and thought "art." But Carol Ann Oster, whose family farms northeast of Scobey along the Canadian border, saw the potential in ...

Syed Abid Shah sits in a small, windowless room on the first floor of his ramshackle house in Bahadur Kali, on the outskirts of district Peshawar. One by one, he pulls out wheat straws from a bunch ...

LAKE CITY — With a tool box containing dog-tooth combs, seam rippers and an assortment of other gadgets, Beth Robbins Keller can make artistic wonders out of straw. She’s a folk artist who started ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Straw is the humble byproduct of grain production. But in Julie Sanco’s hands the dry plants that remain after the wheat harvest are transformed into intricate works of folk art. The ...

WUHAN, June 9 (Xinhua) -- As farmers in Sanfutan town in central China's Hubei Province were busy harvesting wheat, Deng Youpu and his son Deng Xiaojun eyed something else: wheat straw. Farmers once ...

GILLETTE - Five seedheads shake and hiss like prairie rattlesnake tails while Janet Christenot's fingers deftly articulate a straw braid. The straw ends flail alternately as she bends stalks, one over ...

The Strasburg Heritage Society will host a workshop about making straw stars on Sunday, Nov. 17, from 2 p.m. to p.m. Linda D. Beiler will lead the workshop. Wheat weaving is an ancient folk art which ...

A giant tractor made from 62 straw bales won a 'wheat art' competition run by breakfast cereal brand Weetabix. The 10ft tractor, created by Fenland wheat grower Michael Sly and his team from Park Farm ...