Patent ID: 8726479

Claim:
A method of using a woven fabric as a facade hanging, the method comprising steps of: (a) providing a woven fabric comprising warp threads or wires and comprising weft wires, and further comprising an offset weft wire; (b) using the woven fabric being used as a base structure for bearing an object separate from the woven fabric, the object being borne on the offset separate from the woven fabric; wherein a plurality of offset wires is provided in the woven fabric, each of the offset weft wires comprising at least one offset section protruding from the woven fabric and non-offset sections located in the woven fabric, wherein the offset weft wires can be turned about respective axes defined by non-offset portions of the offset weft wires located in the woven fabric, so that protruding offset sections can be laid completely flat on the woven fabric, wherein a tension thread fixes two offset sections protruding from the woven fabric at an angle to one another, to the woven fabric, or to one another and to the woven fabric, so that the tension thread protects the protruding offset sections from any undesired turning about the non-offset sections located in the woven fabric and so that a bearing capacity for objects carried separate from the woven fabric at respective tips of the protruding offset sections is increased.