> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: [[Tim Ingold]] > Reference:: https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/of-blocks-and-knots-architecture-as-weaving > Date:: 2013 > Tags:: #architecture #textiles > WeftLinks:: [[Creative value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Makers are creative]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Textiles is foundational for the development of architecture. ### Highlights About Gottfried Semper: > ‘The beginning of building’, he declared, ‘coincides with the beginning of textiles.’ And the most fundamental element of both building and textiles, he thought, was the knot.