corn dolly

The straw can also be used for making corn dollies.

How to teach about harvest - without using corn dollies!

He taught her to make easy corn dollies.

They're quite nice those little corn dollies.

What type of shapes of corn dollies were there?

Corn Dollies and other similar harvest straw work can be divided into these groups:

Rye straw is used to make corn dollies.

We didn't sell any corn dollies or any of our other goods either."

'We'd never get any more corn dollies,' she said.

Then the corn dollies were made from the finest ears of corn, woven to the local design, bound with red ribbons.

That's both corn dollies.

Corn dollies ("vetulas") were thought to hold the spirit of the corn in harvest rituals.

These moulds on a smaller scale, filled with earth and grain, and having a similar function to corn dollies, are also found in tombs.

He waded straight in, laying about him, smashing anything near him, a lamp, some corn dollies, a vase, a picture†the television.

The Corn Dollies (band)

The Corn Dollies were a United Kingdom indie band from London, active between 1987 and 1991.

Doesn't sound much like the Corn Dollies, who used to support The Flatmates, but I'm assured they are one and the same.

Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanization.

It went into decline afterward, entering a period that Mrs. Blackburn disparages as "knobbly wood, corn dollies and basket making."

The museum displays prehistoric axe heads, items found in bogs, corn dollies and straw-boy outfits, and military costumes and equipment.

MC8: The Corn Dollies - "Be Small Again"

MC20: The Corn Dollies - "Nothing Of You"

MC9: The Corn Dollies - "Forever Steven"

MC17: The Corn Dollies - "Map Of The World"

I gave one final glance round the pretty sitting-room, seeing the red check frills on the curtains and the corn dollies moving gently in the breeze through the door.