Wow.

I pu- I push the reed through, uh, keeping it the same thickness all the way through.

Instead of spending weeks thatching a rick, they would only spend a few hours, which gave them time to do hedging and stone walling and things like that.

Yeah.

So, you know, it was a labor-saver as well, really.

I'm actually feeding this through, um, the same as, uh, you, you would cloth through a sewing machine.

[machine clanking] Try not to pull it too much, otherwise-