Talk:Hammock

message: I included a pic of one. Quadzilla99 02:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And many others. Quadzilla99 03:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Self supporting hammocks

message: Why are all contributions to this article deleted without posting the reasoning?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zebracobra (talk • contribs) 13:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  May we contribute? 

message: They look awfully unhealthy to the back. Are there sources? --Leladax (talk) 20:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health 

message: A claim is made that a student of Socrates invented the hammock. And then two lines later, that claim is contradicted by the statement that Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Can we please see if that claim even has scholarly validity? I understand that people in the 19th and 20th century may have been saying it... but did they really know? Johansosa (talk) 02:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is also a file in Commons dated 1328 which I believe was before Columbus' time. I'll tag the claim dubious. --Thrissel (talk) 06:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The painting shows a hanging cradle, not exactly a hammock. --Sitacuisses (talk) 21:28, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I was mislead by its categorization (I see you corrected that as well). Still, I think it would be good to have a reference for the statement - for one thing because of the following paragraph, for another because even if it was introduced to Europe from America, it still need not necessarily have been by Columbus. --Thrissel (talk) 09:07, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

text: Hanging cradle or hammock - aren't they essentially the same thing? Of course, adapting a cradle to use by sailors might be a stretch... Kortoso  (talk) 21:43, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's a different kind of construction. Hammocks are suspended more or less horizontally, and it's the horizontal tension that creates the lying surface. In the painting from 1328, the cradle is suspended vertically, an even lying surface is created by means of a wooden frame. --Sitacuisses (talk) 12:32, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

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message: Both hammocks in the first two pictures of the articles have spreader bars, which mostly only exist in the US.
These bars make sleeping in a hammock impossible, and considering that is the primary purpose of a hammock in most places, these images are poorly representative of hammocks in general.
Wiremesh hammocks are also mostly american, and while cheaper, considered less comfortable.
Just one in a thousand articles stating the same: https://www.treklightgear.com/blogs/trek-life/sleeping-in-a-hammock-guide
I'd suggest having three pictures, a Brazilian hammock, a non-wiremesh spreader-bar hammock, and maybe a sari hammock or a chair hammock.
Ceandros (talk) 16:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better introduction pictures