The Berkshire village of Inkpen where, on a sunny autumn afternoon, two English craftsmen are rethatching an ancient barn. There have been straw roofs in England ever since our ancestors came out of ...

In England and Denmark, there are still entire villages of thatched houses. While it is expensive to thatch a roof in those countries, it is not prohibitively so, and the tradition of thatching is ...

GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

Frankly, it's remarkable to be spending one's working days perfecting a traditional craft that dates back 4,500 years to the Bronze Age. I ask Glen Holloway whether the thatching trade is finally in ...

The custom of continuing to thatch farm buildings with rye straw throughout the 19th and into the 20th century was among the most intriguing. This traditional craft was handed down ...

The answer is no. You don’t have to water a thatched roof (unless it’s of the living variety). But that one’s among the many questions Jon Meek fielded when his wife, Deborah, and he first listed this ...

I f you travel through rural south India observing its architecture, you cannot miss the charm and elegance of thatch-roofed huts. Step into one and you will notice how cool the interiors are. Compare ...

Several varieties of thatch are used on Japanese roofs. Most roofing thatch is made of susuki (芒) a high-growing grass with long, blade-like leaves and delicate seed fronds. Also known as Japanese ...