January 25, 2008

Thigh Tiles


See these tiles on the roof of one of the castle buildings? Their shapes were formed by placing them over women's thighs. That's how they did them in those days. Imagine if we had to make tiles by hand nowadays -- shaping them over the thighs of runway models would mean disaster -- they would be so small, you might as well have a sunroof or a skylight. Now, I'm not saying that they wouldn't be usable; I'm just saying you'll need less tiles if you shaped them using my thighs or perhaps the trunk of an elephant.

1 comment:

sibadd said...

Scan down the page on my blog entry - my wife re-roofing our shed in Corfu with thigh tiles:
http://democracystreet.blogspot.com/search?q=%22seamless+overlap%22