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Round Canvas Ditty Bag or Laundry Bag, Canvas Letter Holder, Rope Hammock > 93
Weaving strands to create the
hammock clew.
When the clew is finished, you will have ten strands ready to tie to the spreader
bar.
5> Continue this weaving process exits the spreader bar to it. Tie
on the left and right sides until a bowline with the clew strand
just two strands remain. Tie around the middle of the pair
an overhand knot with these of long cords (see diagram).
two strands. (See diagram and 3> Continue tying the clew ropes
photo.)
to the middled (folded in half)
6> Lace the ten ends of the clew pairs of hammock ropes until
through the spreader bar. My all twenty lengths are tied in
3
bar measures 4 feet by 1 ⁄8 place.
inches by 1 inch, with ten holes 4> Now tie the first row of carrick
drilled through about every 5
inches. (If your pre-purchased bend knots as shown in the
diagram (see Chapter 7 to learn
spreader bar has more than
ten holes, you can fill them how to tie a carrick bend). Note
that each knot is tied close to
with wood putty.) Set your bars the next one, and the entry and
aside, but not too far away.
exit points are the same all the
Follow these steps to make the way across the row.
body of the hammock:
5> Tie each carrick bend in the
1> Cut twenty lengths of cotton second row close to its neigh-
cord, each 41 feet long. bor. Make sure that the entry
2> Find the middle of the first two and exit points for the knots
long cords, and holding these in the second row are exactly
cords in the middle bring the opposite from those in the row
The completed hammock clew. end of the first clew strand that above.
