Trellis (architecture)

[citation needed] Trellises can also be referred to as panels, usually made from interwoven wood pieces, attached to fences or the roof or exterior walls of a building.

[2] The trellis was originally intended to support vine stock – which gives its name: lat Trichila (greenery bower).

In the 19th century, Walt Whitman also mentioned a trellis in his poem Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun.

[3] Trellis was used to support shrubs in espalier, also to separate roads from thickets and diverse sections of vegetable gardens.

When the art of gardening was perfected by André Le Nôtre and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the treillis became an object of decoration and was entrusted to particular workers named treillageurs.