How to make a hammock with your own hands

Rest in the fresh air always has a beneficial effect on the human body. The relaxing lying in a smoothly swaying hammock relaxes, peacekeys and inspires to achieve new interesting goals. Of course, you can buy a corporate hammock in the store for recreation or sports. But is it not better to attach a little strength and fantasy and create your own paradise?

Competently selected material - half of success. The canvas is better to choose from non-synthetic tissues, because they will not allow the body to breathe normally. It is better to prepare a haze, camouflage, tarpaulin, mattress tic or canvas. For weaving, we will suit the cotton rope.

Mounting hammock is an important part of the process on which safety and comfort depends. You can fix the hammock to the trunks of the trees, but the diameter should not be less than 20 cm. In the case of attachment to the supports, it is important to insert them to the depth of meters or more.

The height of hanging should be about 1.5 meters. If the supports are made in the form of a mobile structure, you can transfer a hammock from one corner of the yard to another, periodically changing the scenery.

After reviewing the two most popular ways to create a miracle bed, you can choose the one that most satisfies your priorities. As they say, taste and color.

Mexican cocoon is an easy-to-manufacture and convenient option. It is absolutely impossible to fall out of it, but it is not very convenient to turn over. For the manufacture, you will need two identical cuts of cloth with a size of 1.5 per 3 m and a twenty meter durable cord.

Cuts are folded on each other and stripped along the edges. The resulting tunnel must be obtained on both sides in a width of 5-7 cm and strain. In the resulting hole stretch the lace and, after taking several times around the canvas, tighten. Also come with the other side.

Braided hammock, unlike their Soviet progenitors, today it is possible to make not only comfortable and functional, but also stylish enough. To create such an option need two strong rail and tight underwear or a similar cable. The bars need to make holes in width three pitches every 4-5 cm.

Appearance hammock future depends on your macramé pattern. For the product dimensions 1h2,5 meters will need about 170 meters of rope. Despite the fact that the nodes and macrame patterns may be different, the cell should still not be more than 7 cm. The finished mesh is passed through the holes in the rails and a few shoelaces tied into knots. It remains only to fix it is supported.

The time and effort spent on the production of the hammock with his hands, never compare with the pleasure that you can get a comfortable stay in it. And if you think in advance about the colors and design, it also will be an excellent subject of your yard decor.