The first photo of this page presentation illustrates the original wall sheathed with willow. Young people aged 13 to 18 whom I met on the street and asked if they would appreciate a stipend to learn about this construction technique are the workers who stitched here with 32 mm cotton rope or 16mm cotton twine (1/8" and 1/16").
The willow sheathed wall inherited a difficulty from previous work ; notice the vertical bamboo above the doorway. This was a temporary bamboo pole used to hold the first truss in place. I simply cut it off at door height for convenience, at the time. The result is a projection from the plane of the oputside wall which creates a bulge and extra work in the otherwise smooth outside plane. The same pole on the inside could have been left in place almost invisibly, and effortlessly.
This is a bamboo sheathed wall, looking through the window opening to the inside of the willow sheathed wall shown above. Notice the extra stitching required along the window boundry. The bamboo rolls were made with less wire stitching than the willow, this translated into extra stitching to hold it in place securely against the bamboo wall studs.
The same problem with an external temporary supporting brace as the willow side also required extra effort on the bamboo side.
Willow sheathed side ready to receive plaster. This stitching pattern could not have occured without the poultry wire. Note stitching in the truss area which is to the underlying poultry wire and independent of bamboo framing.
