Yealms and Broaches. (opens in new tab)

I’m a sucker for the technical vocabulary of traditional fields, the more obsolescent the better (cf. retting flax), so of course I enjoyed Rukmini Callimachi’s NY Times piece (archived) on the beleaguered master thatchers of olde England and the roofs they thatch: For the most ardent traditionalists, the only true thatch is “long straw” — […]