Paul Locher outlines the use of rye straw to make baskets and store dried apple slices, schnitz, at homesteads in the early ...

A thatcher who has a three-year waiting list for his services said a shortage of straw has caused problems ... to change the material of their thatched roof. Historic England have a statutory ...

It is the most durable material, lasting around 20 years, whereas flax needs replacing after about 10 and straw after five. Shovlin points enviously at neighbouring England where thatched roofs are ...

A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed ...