Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
A thatched pub (The Williams Arms) at Wrafton, North Devon, England
Inside view of an Inca roof in one of the few reconstructed buildings of Machu Picchu
The multi-tiered Meru towers of the Besakih temple in Bali are thatched with black ijuk fibres.
Thatch works on a house in Mecklenburg, Germany
A pub is, in several countries, a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century to differentiat
Thatching
…A thatched pub (The Williams Arms) at Wrafton, North Devon, England Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge…
Unicorn Hotel, Church Street, Manchester, England
The interior of a typical British pub
The Ale-House Door (painting of c. 1790 by Henry Singleton)