23 - 29 June 2025 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury
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Thatching is one of the world’s oldest crafts – an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allan discovered when he quit an office job to become an apprentice in Devon. Now a master of the trade, Tom Allen goes in search of thatching’s history and future, meeting fellow thatchers, from the son of a lobster fisherman who thatches with a dune grass in the Hebrides, to a Syrian refugee who found peace among the seagrass roofs of Denmark, to one of the first women to master Japan’s 5,000-year-old thatching tradition.Eye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, this is a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.
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