Traditional
British
Craft
Loosely speaking, thatching is the use of
straw or grasses as a building material
which dates back as far as the Bronze
Age in Britain where thatched cottages
and farm buildings were the norm in
rural Britain.
So why the attraction to thatch? First of
all, the building practices of bygone Britain
ran to lightweight, irregular materials,
such as wattle and daub walls, and
cruck beams.
These walls were simply not made to take
much weight, and thatch was by far the
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