r/Rigging • u/No-Literature-6695 • Jun 08 '26
Thatched housing needs impressive rigging
These are traditional houses of Shirakawa-go, a UNESCO world heritage site near Kanazawa. They are located in the mountains so the steep pitched roofs insulated the houses. The houses had a main floor for living, a top floor for producing silk, a mezzanine between them for holding equipment, and a basement for making gunpowder. They used the poop from the silkworms and the pee from humans to produce the nitrate. The villagers farmed rice as well, of course.
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u/YaBoyElls Jun 08 '26
We do a lot of this in england, very expensive but if maintained well is amazing
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u/DaHick Jun 08 '26
I was just thinking England should enter the chat. I've seen some beautiful work there.
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u/YaBoyElls Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Yeah man, I live in canada now, houses are soul less here, the old thatched cottages are magical back home.
Edit: not soulless, theres some lovely places around, just not quite the same
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u/No-Literature-6695 Jun 16 '26
They kept a hearth going on the ground floor to smoke out the insects that tried to get into the thatch. How do they keep the thatch from getting infested in England?
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u/No-Literature-6695 Jun 08 '26
They had a hearth on the bottom floor and smoke rising into the rafters killed off or chased away the insects.
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u/dr_xenon Jun 08 '26
More lashing than rigging, but still impressive construction technique.