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Hand-coiled from dried wheat grass stalks by the craftswomen of Samuday Crafts in Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, this oval tray turns a skill practised in the quiet non-farming season into a steady source of income. The straw weave glows a warm golden. Use it to serve tea and snacks, to corral keys and candles on a console, or to layer texture into a tablescape. It is renewable, biodegradable, and finished entirely by hand.
Each piece may vary slightly due to handwork. Avoid moisture and perfumes. Clean gently with a soft, dry cloth.
Each piece is handcrafted, so slight variations in colour, texture and dimension are natural and celebrate its handmade origin.
This tray earns its place far beyond the kitchen. On a dining or coffee table, let it serve. The raised rim keeps teacups, a small pot of chai, and a plate of namkeen from sliding, while the lightweight straw body lifts and carries from room to room with almost no effort.
On a console or entryway shelf, it turns into a catch-all. Drop in keys, sunglasses, and a folded note. The golden weave softens the hard edge of the surface beneath it, and a brass diya or a small potted plant alongside it builds a styled, lived-in corner in seconds.
For table styling, group it with ceramic or terracotta. The straw tone reads warm against glazed blues and deep greens, and its organic, slightly irregular edge quietly balances anything machine-made sitting nearby. Keep it dry. Use it for fruit, bread, or wrapped sweets rather than wet or oily food, since the natural fibre is uncoated.
Care is simple. Keep it out of standing water and prolonged direct sun, wipe it with a barely damp cloth, and let it air-dry fully before you put it away. Treated this way, it holds its shape and colour for years.
Wheat grass craft begins where farming ends. After the wheat harvest in the fields around Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh, the dried stalks that would otherwise be burned are gathered, sorted, and cleaned by hand by the women of the Samuday Crafts cluster. A discarded agricultural byproduct becomes raw material for a craft that fills the long non-farming months with paid work.
The stalks are soaked until supple, then bundled into even cores. Working without any machine, the weaver coils these straw bundles in a tight outward spiral, binding each new round firmly to the one before it so the body grows in a single continuous spiral from the centre out. The oval shape builds row by row. The rim is raised slightly at the end to give the tray its useful lip.
Tension is everything. Pulled too loose, the weave gaps and weakens; pulled evenly and steadily, the coils lock together into a firm, smooth, surprisingly strong surface. The finished piece is trimmed and left undyed, in the stalk's own golden tone.
All of this happens in homes and shared village spaces, between farming seasons, in the hands of women rather than a factory line. Small variations in tone and weave are not flaws. They are the honest signature of a thing made by hand.
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Wheat Grass craft is a Rajasthani innovation repurposing post-harvest stalks into golden, dye-free baskets, lamps, and décor through hand-twisting, coiling, and stitching techniques.
