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1> Cut five pieces of cotton rope, each 8 feet 6 inches
long. Tape the ends or dip the ends in shellac to
prevent them from unraveling.
2> Loop each piece of rope through the rope grom-
met or metal ring, creating ten strands that are
each about 4 feet long.
The rope woven across the nine other strands.
The right strand woven through the other strands.
3> Lay the grommet on a table. Pick up the first strand
on the left, and in an over-under-over-under pro-
cess draw this strand across the nine strands and
out to the right (see photo and diagram).
4> Now pick up the strand on the right side and
weave it over-under-over-under and out to the left
(see photo and diagram).
Weaving rope for the hammock clew.
Weaving the right strand over to the left.