Catharine Otto’s culturally rich work was showcased at Iowa City’s Artifactory in a gallery on Oct. 4. These unique installations are made entirely of wheat. Cards distributed at the gallery featured ...

A web-based company located in Idaho, wheatweaving.com, which sells kits and supplies, offered directions for this beginning wheat-weaving project: Soak these straws in hot tap water for about an hour ...

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 ...

Peg Nelson is a weaver, but her material isn't yarn or thread. It's wheat. Using a centuries-old technique, she soaks stalks of wheat for about an hour in cold water to get them pliable enough to ...

When Ann Lane Hedlund was an undergrad at the University of Colorado, Boulder, back in 1973, she signed up to study with Joe Ben Wheat, a curator of anthropology at the university’s museum. The year ...

Wheat weaving saw a resurgence of sorts in Kansas during the '80s, with the founding of the national group in 1987. Since then straw art has evolved, assimilating styles from countries including ...

Topic: Several individuals will demonstrate Norwegian skills. Ruth Anna Hartman and Linda Shoesmith will demonstrate the art of Wheat Weaving. Patty Haakenson will demonstrate Hardanger which ...

A quilt show, wheat-weaving show and display of wedding dresses with programs on vintage hats and women's clothing will be Friday-Sunday, May 13-15, in Bishop Hill, a historic community in Henry ...

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 ...