Learning to Build Rope Bridges

A timber academy clings to a mossy cliff above a green river valley, with five rooms on three levels. At the top is an open terrace, where a robed teacher shows a model rope bridge on a stand to a group of students holding papers. Below left, a costume room holds dressmaker's dummies, hanging ribbons and rolls of cloth, where two people adjust a blue and gold outfit. Beside it a sculpture room shows a man placing a bird on a curved metal branch while an older man holds a notebook. On the lowest level, an old man and a girl lay out bridge plans at a table under rope loops and knot charts. At bottom right a man and girl handle a red woven net. Lanterns along the outer wall and a different floor in every room divide the house cleanly.