Nedan hittar du ett stort urval av intressant litteratur om stråtak.
Sverige
J.Leche. Beskrivning över de Skånska Halmtaken. 1746
Karl Mattisson: "Lägga båustaeg" 1946
Karl Mattisson: "skörden genom tiderna" 1953
Albert Sandklef: "Hallandsgårdar" Stockholm 1953
Fredrik Gadde: "På halmtakens tid" 1958
Karl Mattisson: "Det sydsvenska halmtaket" Lund 1961
Anders Nilsson & Anders Svensson: "En studie av stråtak" Lund 1990
Eje Arén: "Halmtak" 1998 ISBN 91-972800-2-X
Danmark
Jørgen Kaarup Jenssen: "Taekkebogen" 1981 ISBN 87-01-79541-4
Jørgen Kaarup Jenssen: "Det levende tag" 2004 ISBN 87 7953 585 2
Jørgen Kaarup Jensen:"Naturens eget tag" 2014 ISBN 9788771591613
Danske taekkemandslaug: "Taekkevejledingen" 1996
Lef Tarp: "Taekkebogen" 2008 ISBN 978-87-7881-926-0
Jørgen Kaarup Jenssen: "Tængemænd og vaskepiger" 2015 ISBN 978-87-998318-0-7
Finland
Iiro Ikonen & Eija Hagelberg: "Reed up on reed" 2007 ISBN 978-952-11-2780-9
Estland
Karl Tihase: "Estonian vernacular architecture" 2007 (återutgiven)
Siim Sooster: "Ruoko-ja olkikattojen valmistusopas" 2006
Tyskland
Ebenhard Deutschmann: "Lausitzer Holzbaukunst" Bautzen 1959
Bernd Grützmacher: "Reet und strohdächer" 1981 ISBN 3-7667-0554-7
Ina Anders : "Wie kommt das Reet aufs Dach?" 1997 ISBN 3-89598-464-7
Mila Schrader: "Reet & Stroh als historisches baumaterial" 1998 ISBN 3-931824-09-8
Heinrich Mejl: "Mauer-Maler-Zimmerman" Altes Bauhandverk 2001 ISBN 3-8042-1012-0
Walter Schattke: "Das Reetdach" 2002 ISBN 3-7672-1140-8
Tjeckoslovakien
Ladislav Foltyn: "Volksbaukunst in der Slowakei" 1960
Holland
M.Th.M.van Ooi: " Het dieten dak" 1980
RDMZ : "Het Week dak" 1990 ISBN 90-12-06549-6
Frederik J. Weijs: "Riet" 1990 ISBN 90 6248 627 4
P.Boer & Zn. : " Rietdekkers van Krimpen tot Giessendam" 2015
Prof.Dr.J.M.Greef /Riet ABC BV : "De kvalitet van riet" 2016 ISBN 978-90-826302-0-6
England
CoSIRA: "The Thatchers Craft" 1981
Michael Billett: "Thatching and Thatcher buildings" 1982 ISBN 0-7091-7205-2
Robert West: "Thatch" 1987 ISBN 0-7153-8849-5
Historic Scotland: "Thatch and thatching techniques" 1996 ISBN 0-9517989-7-9
Historic Scotland: "The archeology of scottish thatch" 1998 ISBN 1-900168-49-9
Majorie Sanders and Roger Angola: "Thatches and thatching" 2012 ISBN 978 1 84797 321 4
Zoe Herbert : " A Survey of Thatcher Buildings in Scotland" 2014-2015 ISBN 978-1-898-856-35-1
Frankrike
Gerard Toffin: "man and his house in the himalayas" 1991 ISBN 81-207-1364-8
Évelyn Malnic-Dybman: "les maison de normandie" 1998 ISBN 2-212-06120-X
Japan
Chüji Kawashima: "Japan´s folk architecture" 2000 ISBN 4-7700-2506-08
Shirakawa-go Tourist Association : "Traditional Houses in the Gassho Style" 2013
Japan Thatching Cultural Association:"Thatching in Lita-Shinshu" 2014
JTCA : "Thatching in Aizu" 2014
JTCA. "Thatching in Shinshu" The Craft & Scenery 2017
Exploring Japanese Thatch. 2019 ISBN978-4-540-19116-9