straw thatched roof
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Topic: straw thatched roof
Posted By: Bbentler
Subject: straw thatched roof
Date Posted: 5/05/08 at 7:39am
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Heya everyone. Continue my unique project for this set, I am trying to find a way to create a small portion of a straw thatched roof. While it is easy to locate straw in this area (Iowa), it is NOT easy to find out how exactly to create a straw thatched roof. Should I try and make a real thatched roof or should I attempt to recreate it using "other materials" to simulate it. This is going to be used for a facade of the front of the house that will only measure about 4 feet or 8 feet wide so it is really only a matter of a tiny strip of a thatched roof.
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Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 5/05/08 at 8:58am
I have done this exact thing with for Dancing at Lugnagsah (Probably misspelled). I had the front of a fieldstone barn with a thatched roof. I went to the local big box home imrovement store and bought about a dozen large push brooms. I took the heads for the brooms and mounted them brush side out towards the audience just at the roof line. I had bought the natural straw brushes so the look was the right color also. This worked out realy well and also gave the theatre a buch of push brooms after the show closed.
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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse
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Posted By: ZFix1
Date Posted: 5/05/08 at 11:48am
I have made several straw roofs. You have access to straw, so you get the straw into small bundles (about a hand full) and tie them with string at one end. To keep the bundles together, you can dip the tied end in Elmers glue if you want but not necessary. You then staple these to a piece of luan the desired size of your roof, with string. You can drill small holes in the luan to 'thread' the string through also. Start at the bottom edge of the roof and overlap as you go to top.
Stan
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If you can dream it, I can make it happen
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Posted By: spikesgirl
Date Posted: 5/06/08 at 11:28am
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This may sound hokey, but we went to a party store, bought a couple raffeta hula skirts and used those for our 'straw'. It was fast, cheap and really easy as the grass was all attached at one end, we could easily fire proof it and them slap it on - trimming as desired.
Charlie
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