She says she centered an inexpensive Chinese straw hat over the bulb, hanging the top and bottom edges of the brim on long nails tapped into the wall. The farther away from the wall the hat is ...

For Hai Jiangbo, seeds and a straw hat are what he brings with every time he traverses the continent. Hai, 52, set out for his 24th trip to Africa on Tuesday, shortly after the Beijing Summit of the ...

Straw hats, once seen as purely utilitarian, are now gaining a new life as fashionable and internationally sought-after products—thanks in part to a centuries-old craft from Shandong province.