Cob: logs and leather, earth and weaves.

[Amanda Peck]

Yep, Ms Taylor does have great books.

Of course, if you're building primarily of earth, then (more or less) 
straight lines have no particular advantages, and curves may serve as 
support.  If you're building of logs, or stone that is easy to form into 
blocks, straight lines do make sense.

Works for clothing too.  Leather doesn't come in rectangular pieces, so you 
might as well do fitted clothing with it.  Woven cloth does, and you have to 
do something with cut edges, so at the opposite extreme there is the 
Japanese kimono, which I gather was traditionally taken apart to wash.

What's odd, it just now struck me, is that some at least of the African 
clothing is based on the woven cloth model, where the houses are earth, and 
with Europeans, log and leather form the model.

Amanda








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