Bamboo Drying Frame on Two Lashed Trestles

Saw four legs about 1.8 m long, two tie bars about 1.2 m, and two to four cross poles as long as you want the frame. Cut just beyond a node so the ends stay closed, and trim off side shoots.

Cross two legs about 30 cm from their tops and bind them with a few turns of cord round both, then frapping turns between them. Spread the feet and lash a tie bar across, about 40 cm above the ground. Make two trestles.

Stand the trestles apart and lay the first cross pole in the two crotches. Lash it to each trestle. Lash further poles across the legs lower down if you need more line.

Set it where the air moves, hang the work over or from the poles with space between pieces, and take it under cover from rain.