Ernie Janes / Silhouette of man carrying cut reeds for thatching, sunset, Cley Marsh, Norfolk, UK

Ernie Janes / Black labrador dog resting on reeds used by thatcher to thatch roof, Norfolk, UK, November

Peter Lewis / Thatcher repairing thatched roof of cottage in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK, September 2010

Ernie Janes / Man gathering Sedge for thatching, Norfolk, UK. June 2007

Ernie Janes / Man harvesting reeds, Cley Marsh, Norfolk, UK. January 2009

Ernie Janes / Men thatching a cottage roof, Trunch, Norfolk, UK. 2007

Ernie Janes / Men thatching a cottage roof, Trunch, Norfolk, UK. 2007

Ernie Janes / Man thatching a cottage roof, Trunch, Norfolk, UK. 2007

Ernie Janes / Men thatching a cottage roof, Trunch, Norfolk, UK. 2007

Ernie Janes / Bundles of cut reeds beside the River Ant, Norfolk Broads, Norfolk, UK

Ernie Janes / Bundles of cut reeds beside the River Ant, Norfolk Broads, Norfolk, UK

Ernie Janes / Man bunching cut reeds for thatching, Cley Marsh, Norfolk, UK

Ernie Janes / Silhouette of man bunching cut reeds for thatching, sunset, Cley Marsh, Norfolk, UK

Pete Oxford / Palm leaves used for thatch by Macushi people, Yupukari Village, Rupununi, Guyana

Tim Laman / Woman thatching a roof in the village of Chandpai on the Passur River, where shrimp fry fishing to supply shrimp for the shrimp ponds is the main industry. Villagers live in simple mud and thatch huts...

Juergen Freund / Nipa palm (Nypa fruticans) growing beside river, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008. Their leaves have traditionally been harvested for roof thatching and walls of dwellings in Asia and Oceania.

Jouan & Rius / People in Betsileo village with reeds for thatching, Highlands, Madagascar

Gary K. Smith / Harvesting Saw Sedge {Gahnia radula} for thatching

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutter using mechanised cutter to harvest phragmites reed for thatching use. Cley, North Norfolk, UK, March

Gary K. Smith / Cley windmill with reedcutters harvesting reeds for thatching, North Norfolk, UK

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutters harvesting reeds from the reedbeds for use in thatching, Cley, North Norfolk, UK

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutter using mechanised cutter to harvest phragmites reed for thatching use. Cley, North Norfolk, UK, March

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutter using mechanised cutter to harvest phragmites reed for thatching use. Cley, North Norfolk, UK, March

Gary K. Smith / Cley windmill with reedcutters harvesting reeds for thatching, North Norfolk, UK

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutter using mechanised cutter to harvest phragmites reed for thatching use. Cley, North Norfolk, UK, March

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutter using mechanised cutter to harvest phragmites reed for thatching use. Cley, North Norfolk, UK, March

Gary K. Smith / Bundles of thatching reeds (Phragmites sp) ready for thatcher, North Norfolk, UK

Gary K. Smith / Reedcutter using mechanised cutter to harvest phragmites reed for thatching use. Cley, North Norfolk, UK March

Michael Pitts / Reeds harvested for thatching lay ready to be exported from the Danube Delta, Romania

David Kjaer / Field of Wheat stooks drying after harvest - used for threshing and straw for thatching, Wiltshire, UK.

David Kjaer / Field of Wheat stooks drying after harvest, used for threshing and straw for thatching, Wiltshire, UK.

Mark Yates / Cottage roof being thatched, Essex, UK.

David Kjaer / Corn stooks drying in field - Straw to be used for thatching, Lower Perwood farm, Wiltshire, UK.

David Kjaer / Harvesting corn and Corn stooks drying in field. Straw to be used for thatching, Lower Perwood farm, Wiltshire, UK.

DAVID TIPLING / Bailed reeds for use in thatching, Norfolk, England, UK

Pat De La Harpe / Basotho man thatching hut, one of his wives carries a dead Black backed jackal, Lesotho, South Africa

WILLIAM OSBORN / View towards Colerne with stooks of wheat grown for thatching straw, Wilts, UK

Pete Oxford / Grass cutters ferry grass for thatching on the Narayani River. Chitwan NP, Nepal. Allowed to take grass for ten days of the year.

WILLIAM OSBORN / View towards Colerne with stooks of wheat grown for thatching straw, Wilts, UK