About Lattice

The Cultural Heritage of Lattice

Lattice adds a wonderful visual layer to any space. Pervasive across many civilizations before the invention of glass, ornamental lattice was integrated into room dividers, windows, doors, or privacy screens. Lattice was at once an access control barrier, a feature that restricts or allows light, a barrier deflecting peering eyes, and a filter for unwanted views. In addition to the primary decorative pattern, lattice might imbed color, carved figures and landscapes, and open viewing windows.

Lattice Made from Sticks

Traditionally, wood lattice screens were hand-built by highly skilled craftsman. It was time and labor intensive. A frame defined the perimeter, and individual sticks were hand cut. Specialized joints were cut into the ends and midpoints of the parts. Parts were connected, and slowly the frame area would slowly fill in like pieces in a jig saw puzzle. The geometry of the parts and joints in the assembled screen was strong enough to withstand horizontal force, yet flexible enough to stay intact as temperature and moisture variation changed the parts dimensions.

Today's Conventional Lattice Construction

Hand cut and joined lattice, while beautiful, is not cost effective. As a result, modern fabricators and manufacturers take one of two routes. Patterned applications are routed or laser cut from plywood, sheet metal, or plastic sheets. While cost effective and almost limitless in type of designs, this approach looses the craft of joinery, variation in depth, and the attractiveness of solid wood. The second approach is stapled lathe. While cost effective especially for covering large areas, the roughness and visibility of the metal staples in stapled lathe lacks the architectural quality of joined lattice, and prevents creation of anything other than diamonds and grids.

About LatticeStix Lattice

Modern Joined Lattice

Inspired by generations of faceless craftsman, LatticeStix has endeavored to leverage modern manufacturing technology to replicate the look and feel of timeless wood joinery. We’ve invested in state-of-the-art computerized manufacturing machinery and developed our proprietary design and manufacturing software. Our joinery uses a blend of equal parts geometry, hardwood pins, and water proof glue, providing redundancy in joint structure. The result is a strong, durable, and beautiful joint. Our patented PinLock (TM) system creates very strong joints while retaining the feel of all-wood joinery.

Bringing Pattern to Life

LatticeStix has designed a portfolio of more than 100 patterns, including modification of traditional patterns as well as creation an entire new set of trade-marked patterns. This helps designers visually integrate lattice into virtually any style, from traditional grids to modern collages.

Materials and Finishing

We offer a range of standard woods including western red cedar, redwood, and sapele, and can fabricate in any widely available species including white oak, walnut, VG fir, and mahogany. We make every effort to source our wood from sustainable sources, and can use FSC woods for green projects. Our finishes and glues are all waterborne and in most cases are low or no VOC, to reduce the air pollution in our neighborhood.

Panels, screens, shade structures, doors and gates all in lattice.

In addition to our core lattice capability, LatticeStix designs and manufactures frame systems, ground stakes, operable door, and post systems to incorporate our lattice into almost any applications including wall trellis, fence post and panel, gates and doors. Modulatis, our modular product, allows creation and shipment of large panels from a system of 16" panels and grid.

About LatticeStix

Lattice Becomes the View

We started LatticeStix in 2005 near the old ship yards of San Francisco with the simple thought that with modern manufacturing techniques, we could recreate high quality lattice for screening, fences, gates, room dividers, and many other applications. Our collection of 100+ off-the-shelf patterns allows designers to quickly identify patterns in a variety of architectural styles, and incorporate them into useful elements. At LatticeStix, we believe that lattice should not just hide the view, it should become the view.