Talking with my partner last night, I went over a couple ideas. Just for clarification, this would be an indoor use only hammock. I have another hammock that I brought in Puerto Rico that started my love for hammocks. If I ever want to do an outdoor hammock, I'd probably buy one.
Knitted: knit a pretty cover of my own design (probably out of cotton for breathability and lack of stretch) and sew it to heavy cotton duck. Then grommet it and use some sort of metal chain (I make chainmaille and would probably do something cool out of titanium) as a substitute for ropes.
Leather: use leather as the main body, the load bearing member, and then sew a backing to it, something comfy but breathable for the side you lay on, then again grommeting with metal chains. This idea is mainly because a leather hammock sounds awesome. Would I have issues with it stretching? I want to say no.
Knitted/chainmaille monstrosity: knit the size of hammock I want, and then weave a chainmaille pattern into it for strength. Originally imagining it was using a 4 in 1 pattern in stockinette, but I'd probably use a different chainmaille pattern that lays flatter and a yarn that soft enough to counteract the feeling of woven in metal. This time, I'd just straight weave in the chains to the end.
What problems can you foresee me having? What problems have you had with your hammocks?
Submitted February 24, 2015 at 09:04PM by diggingaditch http://ift.tt/1DkjB0I
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