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- verb Present participle of
pleach .
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Examples
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It's the ancient art of "pleaching"--training and joining plants to create structures--with a 21st-century twist, using milling software to achieve precise geometries.
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch By Tom Vanderbilt 2008
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It's the ancient art of "pleaching"--training and joining plants to create structures--with a 21st-century twist, using milling software to achieve precise geometries.
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch Tom Vanderbilt 2008
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The Fab Tree Hab -- a home literally made from trees, using an ancient technique called pleaching (the art of weaving (and sometimes grafting) trees together to form structures) -- was one of the design entries for the Index: awards, emerging from the genius of a crew including MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and our friend, Javier Arbona of Archinect.
Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006
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In order to build the arboreal frame, the designers utilize “pleaching” – a gardening technique in which tree branches are woven together to form living archways.
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Based on the ancient gardening technique of “pleaching,” the proposed house relies on nature for water, heat and human waste disposal.
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Based on the ancient gardening technique of “pleaching,” the proposed house relies on nature for water, heat and human waste disposal.
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Maybe he wrote it in response to reading about pleaching.
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So as the grooms hustled our baggage within, I followed Master Harpole into a green confusion of pleaching and pruning and apricocks and yew.
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Helping to pull the mowing-machine or to empty the cut grass into the wheel-barrow, with the chance of a ride afterwards; clipping evergreens with shears they can hardly lift; cutting turf edges with a crescent-shaped spud, dangerously sharp; pleaching alleys with pebbles or paving them with brick; building rockeries, damming streams, puddling lily-ponds: these are the occupations which delight them.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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Taking advantage of this fact of nature to develop his living sculptures, he unwittingly recreated pleaching.
bilby commented on the word pleaching
"Innovative designers are creating tree houses that live and 'breathe,' like the Fab Tree Hab. It uses high-tech computer modelling and ancient techniques like pleaching, which weaves together living branches and trunks to create walls and ceilings."
- 'Eco tree houses come of age' on smartplanet.com, 29 September 2007.
June 21, 2008
yarb commented on the word pleaching
See also pleach.
June 22, 2008