The handicraft of straw of wheat is the long-time missing handcraft work of Sui Dynasty in China. After thirty odd years of hard work, at the late part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, a lady making handicrafts discovered the process of the handcraft at last. Through her arduous research, she further improved the processing of the handcraft work with modern techniques-with her dexterous hands and her innovative and bold spirit-according to the features of the straw of wheat, which has a natural patina, texture. She had made the ancient traditional art famous for its extraordinary splendors again.
The making of the handicraft of straw follows the following procedures: first, submerge the straws of wheat in water, boil, braise, decoct, stew, fume, vapor-treat, fry, bake, and bleach them, then dry them; second, make them into flat pieces; third, iron them to carbonize them with different time durations to create different colors with the changes of the ironing temperature; finally with more than thirty delicate procedures, such as cutting, printing, weaving, carving etc., she produces more than two hundred genres of works of art characterized with delicacy and they are true to life-persons, animals, flowers, birds, pavilions, etc.
This kind of work of art is noted for its simplicity, elegance, therefore, it has been praised and welcomed by the persons home and abroad. Her words of art won an international level Gold Medal of Innovation in the international exhibition of arts. One of her works was presented to the UN general secretary Kofi Annan, who sang high praise for the work, and cherished it very much.
In the hall of the UN general office, also, hang her work of art named Eagle.
The work of art of straw of wheat is the best choice of decoration in a setting room, and a nice gift for your relatives or for social purposes. It will further improve the good relationship and friendship between you and your friends or relatives, for it promotes much more cherishing feeling from the others by giving them a deep impression with its rarity. As a gift of elegance and loftiness, the work of art will be more enjoyable.
As for a large piece of art of straw of wheat, it will take more than one year to accomplish it from the beginning of the designing to the accomplishment of it, because the art of straw of wheat is totally made by hand. So it adds to the rarity of it for the limitation. The value of the work lies in that it combines the art with the rarity, making it into the treasure of art in China.
