Eventually we went back to the boat and lay down in its little hut of plaited straw, leaving our fire to die.

He wears a hat of plaited straw dyed black, as often worn in the summer at the time.

A tightly woven little basket of plaited straw held beautifully sharpened pencils of a cigar-box colour.

Corn dolly, figures constructed from plaited straw with an ancient religious significance.

Then she opened the bread drawer of the dresser, took out the bread knife and the oval basket of plaited straw with its red check cotton lining.

What good would it do to ride a lady's palfrey, which anyone could ride with a bridle of plaited straw?

Sandalwood incense was burning somewhere, and the floor was covered in neat mats of plaited straw.

On a sign from the presiding judge the clerk of the court brought three fans of plaited straw, which the three judges promptly put in action.

Little gold stars and circles of plaited straw; light, swinging silver-paper bells.