weaving walls

Weaving is the textile art in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads, are interlaced with each other to form a fabric.


“The beginning of building coincides with the beginning of textiles…the wall is the structural element that formally represents and makes visible the enclosed space as such, absolutely, as it were, without reference to secondary concepts. We might recognize the pen, bound together from sticks and branches, and the interwoven fence as the earliest vertical spatial enclosure that man invented…weaving the fence lead to weaving movable walls…Using wickerwork to set apart ones property and for floor mats and protection against heat and cold far preceded making even the roughest masonry. Wickerwork was the original motif of the wall. It retained the primary significance, actually or ideally, when the light hurdles and mattings were transformed into brick or stonewalls. The essence of the wall was wickerwork."