thatching
Reed roof layering
Thatching is the craft of covering roofs with dried plant material—typically straw, reeds, or palm fronds—layered and bound to shed water.
The technique is ancient and still practiced in parts of Britain, Africa, and the Pacific.
Thatching also refers to the material itself or the finished covering: The cottage's thatching needed repair after the storm.
Tube for sipping
- reedsHollow-stemmed marsh plants
- sparsBoxes for practice
- swayRock back and forth
- bundlingGrouping items as one
fixing · dressing · pitchfork · harvest · sedge · heather · needle
Small rural home
- roundhouseCircular train maintenance building
- wattle-and-daubWoven sticks covered in clay
- cobMaize ear's central cylinder
- half-timberedConstruction with visible framework
Rural area beyond towns
- villageSmall rural community
- hamletTiny rural settlement
- farmhouseDwelling on agricultural land
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
bucolic · rustic · homestead · croft · meadow · farmland · vernacular · agrarian
Interweaving flexible strands
- bundlingGrouping items as one
- layeringForming successive strata
- overlappingCovering part of another
- interlockingEngaging by overlap
binding · tucking · courses · handfuls · compression · density · thickness · texture
straw
Tube for sipping
bundling · fixing · dressing · pitchfork · harvest · sedge · heather · needle
cottage
Small rural home
- roundhouseCircular train maintenance building
- wattle-and-daubWoven sticks covered in clay
- cobMaize ear's central cylinder
half-timbered · longhouse · byre · lychgate · summerhouse · gazebo · palapa
eaves
Projecting roof edges
pitch · trusses · dormer · gable · hip · fascia · underlayment · apex · netting · wire
countryside
Rural area beyond towns
pastoral · bucolic · rustic · homestead · croft · meadow · farmland · vernacular · agrarian · smallholding
plaiting
Interweaving flexible strands
- bundlingGrouping items as one
- layeringForming successive strata
- overlappingCovering part of another
interlocking · binding · tucking · courses · handfuls · compression · density · thickness · texture · pattern
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, drawings
- landscapinglawn care, landscaping, lawn mowing, grading, gardening
- medieval lifechivalry, royal courts, jousting, knighthood, falconry
- groundskeepinglawn care, mowing, groundskeeping, lawn mowing, trimming
- old tradesblacksmith, blacksmithing, cooper, carpentry, cobbler
- traditional techniquewoodworking, weaving, pottery, blacksmithing, glassblowing