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 ...
Dr. James Beard’s Turfgrass Encyclopedia defines thatch “as an intermingled organic layer of dead and living shoots, stems, and roots of grasses that develops between the turf canopy of green ...
At the Donegal Thatching School, master thatchers teach their skills to help preserve Ireland's long tradition of thatched-roofed cottages A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of ...