Useful Thatching Resources

The following are useful resources for all thatch owners, apprentices and professionals allied to the thatch trade:

Guides and Technical Tables

New Guidance for owners of thatched buildings with wood burning and multifuelled stoves

Fire Prevention Association - Chimney related thatch fires leaflet 2018

Long Straw thatching guide technical table

Water Reed thatching guide technical table

Thatching Green Credentials Leaflet

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Thatchers-Craft-W-Morgan/dp/B00SNEG054

Thatching and Thatched Buildings Paperback – 30 Apr 1998

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thatching-Thatched-Buildings-Michael-Billett/dp/0709062257

East Anglian Crafts

Norman Smedley
Published by Batsford, 1977
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/East-Anglian-Crafts-Norman-Smedley-Batsford/939000413/bd

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Paperback – Sep 2000 by Ronald Blythe 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Akenfield-Portrait-English-Ronald-Blythe/dp/1585790095

Thatch and Thatching (Shire Album)

Paperback – 1 Apr 2004
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thatch-Thatching-Shire-Album-Jacqueline/dp/0747805881

Straw and Straw Craftsmen (Shire Album, No 76)

Paperback – 14 May 1981 by Arthur R. Staniforth (Author)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Straw-Craftsmen-Shire-Album-No/dp/0852635753

Memoirs of a Thatching Family 1860-1968

Paperback – Mar 1995 by B.S. Reeve
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Memoirs-Thatching-Family-1860-1968-Reeve/dp/0948400269

Of Brecks Thatch & Sparrows

An important historical explanation of how thatching has fared in East Anglia and the Home Counties since the 1860's. 

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The National Thatching Straw Growers Association

http://www.ntsga.org.uk

British Reed Growers' Association

http://www.brga.org.uk

Historic England & National Thatching Straw Growers Association Thatch Supply Research

http://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/thatch-supply-research/ 

Thatch and Thatching: a guidance note

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/thatch-and-thatching/