She dropped the halter of rye straw and shouted again, "Yes!"

The roof is conical, made from rye straw on a wooden frame.

He occasionally played fiddle for dance tunes such as "Rye Straw".

Rye straw is used to make corn dollies.

He tapped the sheet with the length of rye straw he was using as a pointer.

At a time and place in which conventional construction materials were expensive or unavailable, it was built out of baled rye straw.

The period of affinage lasts up to eight weeks, during which time they are twice washed in brine and aged on rye straw.

With the emergence and development of rye straw processing in the 19th Century, the population of Comologno increased rapidly.

It retarded burning even further by using only 2 percent sulfur and using charcoal made from rye straw that had not been completely charred.

There were some strands of rye straw which had broken from the truckle beds on which Anno and his family slept, though.

As regards architecture, the region of Lika is well known for its low wooden houses with roofs made of rye straw or shingles.

IN the late 1700's, farmers in Aargau, Switzerland, began braiding rye straw into hats for their own use.

Nonnus knelt beside the bed of rye straw plaited into thick rope and coiled higher on the edges to keep the sleeper from rolling out.

In the right location, however, he might find a very profitable market for hand-harvested and threshed wheat and rye straw for thatching and horse collars.

Roofs in densely wooded and hilly areas are typically clad in wooden shakes or shingles, while flatter and more open areas have traditionally used rye straw.

When they got to the stables, Aimery dismounted quickly and led his big black horse inside, dismissing the groom and starting to unfasten the girth himself, as the rain pounded on the rye straw thatch overhead.

Then wrapping it about with a thick layer of long rye straw, and tucking it up snug and warm, the mound was covered with a thin coating of earth, a flat stone on top holding down the straw.

Its evolution is connected with the Estonian staple black bread and an agrarian tradition dating back some 4000 years, with the threshing barn and dwelling housed under the same roof, thatched with reeds or rye straw.

You get swept up and obsessive, inspired by the earthiness of those rolls baking in the hearth oven, the linen being woven from thread spun from flax grown right here in the fields, the baskets woven of rye straw.

The seats were made in a variety of materials, plaited with subtle variations in pattern: freshwater rushes gathered from the banks of the Rhône, rye straw (top right ), and wheat straw wrapped with raffia (bottom right ) were left plain, or stained red, green, yellow, blue or pale purple.

Alternatively, it is also possible to manufacture similar engineered bamboo from bamboo; and similar engineered cellulosic products from other lignin-containing materials such as rye straw, wheat straw, rice straw, hemp stalks, kenaf stalks, or sugar cane residue, in which case they contain no actual wood but rather vegetable fibers.

In the fall, after the bins in the cellar had been well stocked, we excavated a circular pit in the warm, mellow earth, and covering the bottom with clean rye straw, emptied in basketful after basketful of hardy choice varieties, till there was a tent-shaped mound several feet high, of shining, variegated fruit.