Solomka is Belarusian straw inlay. Rye, wheat or oat straw is split open, soaked in cold, warm or hot water, ironed flat, then cut and laid into dark stained wood — a casket lid, a box, a plaque — so the natural gloss of the fibre catches the light.

The soak temperature sets the tone, so one plant yields a full ramp from pale gold to deepest scorched brown. Everything here is that ramp working against near-black wood: rhombus lattices borrowed from the protective pawuk, mitred strips butt-joined at hard angles, and adjacent panels turned ninety degrees so identical straw reads as two different values.