Latticework

A lattice of crisscross sticks held together by their own interlocking tension or tied, provide a framework to weave or shingle around.

Plyable sticks that make good 'withies'

• Tree; Ash - Fraxinas; sapling shoots/suckers, small branches ~ temperate woodlands, waysides, hedgerows  ~ subtropical forests ~ northern hemisphere, N Africa.
• Trees; Birch - Betula; sapling shoots/ suckers, small branches ~ woodlands, waysides, by water ~ temperate and Taiga regions of northern hemisphere, pockets of southern hemisphere.
• Tree; Willow - Salix; saplings shoots/suckers, small branches ~ woodlands, riverbanks ~ temperate and Taiga regions of northern hemisphere, pockets of southern hemisphere.
• Tree; Conifers - Pinophyta; small branches, brash (with the needles left on maybe?) ~ northern hemisphere.
• Tree; Hazel - Corylaceae; sapling shoots/suckers ~ woodlands, waysides ~ temperate northern hemisphere.
• Plant; Bamboo - Poaceae bambusaceae; thin canes ~ in and by water ~ Africa, Americas, Antarctica, Australasia, Eurasia
• Tree; Rowans/ Mountain Ash - Rosacea; shoots, small branches ~ woodlands, waysides, mountainous rocky places ~ northern hemisphere.
• Tree; Oak - Quercus; sapling shoots/suckers ~ temperate northern hemisphere, tropical Asia, tropical Americas .

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