<I>Rope Hammock</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2022
name: label: Created by
content: Sheldon Scott, American, born 1976
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: Place made
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Pawley Island, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Cotton
label: Topic
content: Craftsmanship
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Recreation
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: Textile design
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Exhibition
content: Reclaiming My Time
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 052
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.98
objectType: label: Type
content: hammocks
label: Type
content: fiber art
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sheldon Scott
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: paint on cotton (fiber) and wood with steel chains
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 140 × 60 × 4 in. (355.6 × 152.4 × 10.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W (Flat): 166 15/16 × 20 1/2 × 1 1/16 in. (424 × 52 × 2.7 cm)