Articles in History
Straw Masks
Straw Masks have been the part of many cultures around the world. They are used for festival, ceremonies, or just for the plan joy of the mask itself. The American Museum of Straw Art has …
Straw Wedding Crowns
Among the many head ware pieces in the American Museum of Straw Art collection are its beautiful crowns. Traditional plaited straw creations from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, they are worn for many festival settings. Most often, …
Victorian Fichu Collar
Victorian Fichu collar
By Morgyn Owens-Celli
This collar (part of a private collection) is a great example of straw adorned fichu collars. Once created in Bohemian Lace and embroidered with splints of straw or couched elements of straw, …
Happy Birthday! The Straw Treasury in Zengövárkony, Hungary is 10 years old!
The Straw Treasury in Zengövárkony (Hungary) is 10 years old!
“Culture cannot be inherited. The culture of our ancestors soon vanishes unless each generation obtains it for themselves” - Kodály Zoltán
In the spring of 2002 a unique …
Uzbek Straw Art
Yuldashev Atabek from Tashkent shared these with Straw Blog. Atabek is a member of Creative Association of Painters under the Arts Academy of Uzbekistan, as well as the Association of Folk Artists. More photos will follow from Atabek.
Strawboys at Irish Weddings
Rosaleen Fallon in her book, “A County Roscommon Wedding, 1892: The marriage of John Hughes and Mary Gavin” explores the customs connected to rural weddings of Ireland. According to Fallon in this time period more …
Mask Making by Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy demonstrates how straw masks and costumes are assembled at his home in Fermanagh.
Photography by Grainne Quinlan and music by Innisfree Ceoil
Korean Wood Carrier
One of the more recent acquisitions in the American Museum of Straw Art is this wood and rice-straw carrier. Like other items in the collection rice straw is used to pad the wait and yet …
Straw Compact
In the years between 1756 and 1815 thousands of French and Dutch prisoners were held in prisons from Cornwall to Scotland. So large were their numbers that some were held temporarily aboard ships docked at …
