CHAPTER 02 · READING THE WEAVE
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WHAT A LATTICE TEACHES

The grid is the argument

Every line earns its place
No reed is decorative — each vertical kākaho carries weight, so the panel reads as structure, not pattern.
Step by step is the meaning
Poutama stairs aren't ornament — they encode ascent through learning, one stage fully held before the next.
Three threads, one discipline
White kiekie, black lath, pīngao gold — a fixed palette laced over and over until restraint becomes the voice.
It repeats so it can be read
Rigid orthogonal repetition lets the eye learn the rule, then notice exactly where the weaver chose to break it.
POUTAMA / woven systems
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