Roof thatching, rattan furniture making and crystal glass cutting are among 70 'critically endangered' British crafts at risk of dying out. Heritage Crafts has issued the stark warning in its ...

This centuries-old eelgrass thatching technique will restore and protect the historic windswept home framed with the wood of shipwrecks for another 350 years.

Some of the very first homes in Kansas were built by members of the Wichita Tribe with cut bundles of native bluestem grass. A new generation of students at Haskell Indian Nations University are ...

Roof thatching and rattan furniture making are among 70 'critically endangered' British crafts at risk of dying out. By ARTHUR PARASHAR. Published: 05:11 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 05:19 EDT, 13 ...

The Japan Thatching Cultural Association (kayabun.or.jp) runs occasional workshops open to non-thatchers. The closest international airport is Nagoya, ...

(Welsh thatching and ship figurehead carving added to UK crafts red list, 13 May) noted that “thatched roofs in Wales are becoming ‘more similar to English styles of thatch’.

In a hall in Portnoo, students at the Donegal Thatching School clamber over practice roofs under the watchful eye of Brian Lafferty, one of Ireland’s last master thatchers.

Luke Fitzgerald started thatching soon after he left school. The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long ...

Luke Fitzgerald started thatching soon after he left school. The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long ...