HEIRLOOM TECHNOLOGY
INSTANT HAMMOCK
Photography by Tim Anderson
Make your own hammock in less time than it takes to read this.
Hammock. Barbecue. Canoe. Hurricane. All are important elements of life in the Southeast and Caribbean. And it turns out these are all words from the Arawak Indian language, dating back to before Columbus arrived in the “new world.”
Some things just don’t change, and it’s a good thing. The hammock is one of those things. There are lots of types of hammocks. The ones we’ve all seen are fancy, complicated ones that are good to sell to rich, industrialized people like us.
There are other types that are much ...
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