Rope Hammock

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Rope Hammock by Sheldon Scott. The handwoven, sculptural, rope hammock is constructed primarily with raw, white, cotton rope coated with black paint. The hammock features a woven net sling, squared spreader-bars at the head and foot of the hammock, and a set of clews at the end points where the hammock is gathered together. The sling is rectangular in shape and is woven in a traditional diamond pattern. It is suspended between the two, black painted spreader-bars which holds the shape of the sling. Each clew has twelve nettles hitched to a single, black painted, steel ring. The nettles have been woven into a V-shaped clew knot and the ends have been threaded through the twenty-four holes drilled into each spreader-bar. Also attached to the top of each clew ring is a short length of black painted chain.

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