Cleaning and Sorting Wheat for Soaking and Plaiting.

How to trim wheat, cutting above the node and pulling off the sheaf, evaluating heads, length and diameters of straws. Timestamps: 00:00 Bearded wheat explained, parts identified. 00:44 Trimming the wheat straw. 01:13 Trimming demo. 02:12 Problems with wheat heads. 02:23 Unused soaked straws. 02:37 Worried about 'bugs' in your wheat? 02:51 Sorting wheat by size of heads. 03:47 Checking the length and diameter of the straws. 04:59 It is time to soak! For more plaiting videos please go to @plaitingcat - my recent work is on that channel. Other Links: Youtube Channels with Instructions for plaiting with straw: Something Corny - Elaine Lindsay - @SomethingCorny and with making traditional English "corn dollies": The Woodland Elf - @Thewoodlandelf National Association of Wheat Weavers https://nawwstraw.org/ More information about straw plaiting https://nawwstraw.org/about-straw-art/ Kansas Association of Straw Artists https://kswheat.com/consumers/straw-a... California Straw Arts Guild https://www.californiastrawartsguild.... Illinois Association of Wheat Weavers https://www.illinoiswheatweavers.org/ Guild of Straw Craftsmen (Great Britain) https://www.strawcraftsmen.co.uk/ plaitingcat’s favorite Facebook strawwork page: https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulStraw