This project has designed a workshop and archive for the production of Pirot kilims, along with their stories and motifs. The project scales the visual communication of carpet patterns into a woven structural strategy. The project’s site is located in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, situated within the ruins of the old National Library of Serbia. Little of the building remains after the Second World War bombing when the site was targeted as an attack on Serbian culture, burning important historic literature. The project began with an interest in bringing the burnt books back to life through visual storytelling. This led to the programmatic development to exhibit Pirot carpets, a rare but traditional Serbian textile craft of woven motifs and stories. Fire had a destructive nature for the site’s history and the project asks how this element could be used in a constructive design process.