Woven in situ
Every net is framed and filled on the site it will live in. The trees - or the architecture - dictate the line. We do not impose a drawing on a living place.
01 - The craft
A mastercraft of rope, not a product off a roll.
Rope is the paint. Empty space is the canvas.
Tree nets - sometimes called space nets - are bespoke, hand-woven platforms of rope and high-tensile cordage. They are built as living systems: tensioned, patterned, and finished in place. It is as much an artistic craft as a building technique.
TreeNets UK exists for this work alone. We weave for private canopies, interiors, estates, wellness houses and hospitality: anywhere a space wants to leave the floor.
Tension as structure
The work is technical and methodical: perimeter, load paths, pattern and bounce. High-tensile cordage and rope are held in a geometry that can be inhabited, not merely looked at.
Kind to the tree
Wooden blocks, wrapping and load spread. The hitch is the craft as much as the mesh: structure you can trust, without harming the living timber that holds it.
02 - Origins
Born of OhmBrella.Grown in the trees.
TreeNets UK is the weaving house of OhmBrella Ltd. Eight years of making: structural integrity, insurance, and a working legacy. This site gives the craft a name of its own.
Jacob Tomkins founded OhmBrella after leaving the City for a fourteen-acre conservation forest of beech and hazel coppice. He still runs that woodland: protecting nature, unlocking inspiration, and making spaces that feel alive. The first UK tree nets were woven there in 2023.
The method originated with Will Reynolds, TreeNet Willy, nearly twenty years at the craft. Jacob’s past in manufacturing standards and quality control was the stimulus for him to teach. Applied to Willy’s skill, that experience became a shared method. He still consults and we partner when we can. From that origin the work has developed here: a local style, responsive to European clients, regulations and tastes.
Weaving courses and retreats are paused while we are full with installations - booked into next year, which is a mark of the integrity of the work. We intend to run them again. Leave your details and we will send an invitation when the diary opens.
8 yrs
OhmBrella’s working history, insurance and structure
2023
First UK nets, from Jacob’s conservation forest
2024
TreeNets UK formed as the weaving house
03 - The company
We turn up. We make it. Then we move.
A full-time travelling crew. Versatility and agility are the specialism.
TreeNets UK is a full-time travelling company. Architects, engineers, theatre designers and playground builders: one crew, on the road together, able to arrive on a site and raise a world from scratch.
We work in situ. The trees, the room and the people who will inhabit the net write the plan. Woven on site rather than fabricated off it, we make in weeks what many construction jobs take in months. That is the specialism: not only the mastercraft, but the versatility and agility to fill a space - interior or out - without the machinery of a conventional build.
The mission is simple: spaces that unlock excitement and joy. Deeply connected to nature, even when the net is indoors.
Architects
Space, load and the line the building already wants.
Engineers
Tension, anchors, bounce: structure you can trust with a body.
Theatre designers
Worlds within worlds. Portals, levels, the feeling of arrival.
Playground builders
Joy, safety, and the animal in us that still wants to climb.
04 - Distinction
Accredited by the Guild of Master Craftsmen.
TreeNets UK is the first weaving company accredited by the Guild, and the first company in the world accredited for work in rope. We also hold the only certified tree-net weaving course. Jacob and Will Reynolds, TreeNet Willy, created that certification together and have taught more than sixty people to weave, many of whom now work with us on live installs.
The course is not on sale while we are on installation work. If you would like an invitation when we open it again, leave your details in an enquiry.
Membership is not purchased; it is earned. The Guild stands by the work, can speak with our customers, and acts as our standards body. This is a structural craft. Integrity is the baseline.
05 - Installations
Worlds within worlds, interior and out.
Private canopies, European interiors, sanctuary woodland and hospitality. Each commission is unique. Nothing is mass-produced.
Canopy & woodland
Hangouts, bridges, ladders and spirals woven between living trees. The land writes the plan.
Sky-gazing nets
A favourite place to lie and watch the canopy move. Colour, bounce, and a little heaven on earth.
Interior space-nets
Mezzanines, play rings, floating rooms. Architecture you can bounce on, finished in the house it will live in.
Rooms for play
Rings, openings, levels. Built for children and for the animal in us that still wants to climb.
Before we arrive
We can show you the net on your trees.
We built our own software for this. From a site photograph we draw the net in place - levels, colour, openings - so you can see the idea before anyone sets foot on the land. That is part of the consultancy: remote, precise, and honest about what the trees will hold.
Site overlay: parkland commission
Multi-level study: European hillside
01
Read the site
Trees, spans, loads, access, and how people will actually use the space.
02
Visualise
From photographs we render the net in place - remotely - so you can see it before we arrive.
03
Frame & weave
Perimeter, anchors, tree protection. Then the pattern, held under tension, in situ.
04
Inhabit
Handover, care notes, and a structure ready to be lived in.
Journal
Read it on the OhmBrella journal.
The longer notes live with the mother company. Open them from here.
06 - Enquire
Tell us about the site.
Fill in the form and it comes straight to the house at [email protected]. We read every enquiry.
- Private homes, estates, woodland and interiors
- Remote visualisation from site photographs
- UK and European commissions