Agriculture
One creative application of the rhombus includes a rational basis that results in profits from prosecco. The Bellussera method is an rhombus-grid overhead vine-training system to optimize sun exposure and fight mildew. This method is said to produce high quality grapes, but has been lately forgotten in lieu of high maintenance costs and technical skills to get it up and the trend of viticulture ever-leaning towards more "disposable" viticulture.
At the time of development (late 1800s), farmers in Rai di San Polo di Piave, Treviso, used sharecropping. Luckily, having an overhead growing method allows for other crops to be grown in the soil below.
Typically, the vines are over 2 meters high, supported by wooden stakes up to 4 meters high, and joined on top with iron wires to form a kind of lattice roofing with plenty of space between rows for growing veggies and hay as subsistence for the farmers, their family, and their livestock.
