Woman in front of her hut with ready prepared reeds, Jiye tribe, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, Africa

Thatched cottage in Chipping Campden, The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Thatched cottage in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

frisian house, Nebel, Amrum Island, Northfriesian Islands, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

frisian houses, Nebel, Amrum Island, Northfriesian Islands, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

House with traditional seaweed roof, Local history museum, Near Byrum, Laeso, Denmark

Historic timber-framed house with thatched roof, old farmhouse, Jork, Altes Land area, fruit cultivation, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Haubarg Kutzenswarft, historic cottage with thatched roof in Westerhever, Eiderstedt Peninsula, North Frisia, North Sea coast, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Swedish house with thatched roof built in 1554, small farmhouse in late medieval architectural style, today in the Franconian Open Air Museum, Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Sandy beach beach with thatched roofs and clear blue sea under a sunny sky, Golden Beach, Pallini, Palioúri, Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Halkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Europe

Historic timber-framed house with thatched roof, old farmhouse, Jork, Altes Land area, fruit cultivation, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Historic windmill in dutch style, Reitbrook Mill, Vierlande, Marschlande, Hamburg, Germany, Europe

Csarda, farmhouse in the Puszta, Hungary

Traditional thatched houses, Landewednack, Lizard, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Historic timber-framed house with thatched roof, old farmhouse, Jork, Altes Land area, fruit cultivation, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Historic windmill in dutch style, Reitbrook Mill, Vierlande, Marschlande, Hamburg, Germany, Europe

Thatched roof house, Hoejer, Jutland, Denmark, Europe

Restoration of a thatched roof

Historic, thatched half-timbered farm house, pitched roof, Altes Land, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Entrance door of a traditional friesian building, Keitum, Sylt, Germany

Thatched roof house in Maasholm, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Traditional house with reed roof top and lantern, Lake Neusiedl National Park, Burgenland, Austria, Europe

Garden cafe, Flickorna Lundgren Pa Skaeret, Skaeret, Kullen Peninsula, Skane, Skane, Skane laen, southern Sweden, Sweden, Europe

Restoration of a thatched roof

Historic stone roofs of buildings, viewed from city center of Courmayeur, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy