Mobius Twists Are Very Useful!
Meet Nettie, a giant Twistish tipi
Who says Mobius Twists aren’t useful? They are wrong. Nettie is a Twistish tipi made from a continuous roll of garden netting, and seven or eight sticks (twelve foot-long, one-by-one inch thick).
If you know your way around a Mobius Twist, you could get away with using only four standing sticks, by using tent stakes instead, and thus omit the four ground sticks altogether.
Nettie’s base is a square, 12 ft by 12 ft, (four of the sticks), and her height is about 7 ft. in the center.
Her standing sticks, three or four, are joined at the top by another kind of twist, one I invented and call a Cook Twist. It is a double Cook Twist, and has four ‘holes’ that keep the ends of the standing sticks going through them in position together. I call it a four-way pole connector.
Nettie, though made of a holey lattice, is remarkably rain-resistant, quite wind-proof, and is always a couple of degrees warmer inside than outside.
She is also portable, and easy to pack up, and set up. Although — twelve-foot sticks are very long, and the weight of eight of them makes me wish I could find bamboo sticks of that length!
