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Thanks for the info- yeah, it may be that there isn't any fabric that has the specs I'm looking for. I'm not terribly worried about weight as I was thinking of using small amounts of it. This is...

It could probably do a lot to provide a custom fit, especially if you tend to sleep one way, although the reason I find hammock design so interesting is that the support has to respond as people...

Yep, that makes sense. I haven't used stretch materials, but my past experiments with clew ends were kind of fussy and so I hoped to use a fabric instead so long as a small enough(light enough)...

Nope, not like that. Though there are plenty of tensile fabric applications that incorporate seams and handle far more load than a hammock ever will. It all depends on the methods and materials...

Nah, not the whole hammock, just certain sections, which introduces problems of its own, but I'd be willing to spend some time chasing it down to see if I can get a little bit of dynamic adjustment...

While I am still immersed endlessly iterating on a 'curved end' hammock build, a recent conversation gave me some ideas about incorporating some amount of robust stretchy fabric(ie thick spandex or...

That's interesting. I would expect a curved end hammock with any kind of W shape would feel like a seat with the lumbar support cranked up too high based on my experience. For that matter I don't...

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You guys are great. There's so much there I feel like I'll have to limit the first design and then jump into more complex study of how fabric behaves under load. This takes me back to my time in...

Once again, I am grateful to those with such an interest in such an old revived thread, but then I guess both hammocking and prototyping inspires an amount of passion in certain types - I count...

Definitely. I've been pretty happy with Dutch's regular width Hexon 1.6 and sticking with it to eliminate variables, and have found I prefer at least 10.5' long for that width. Not sure how the...

Thank you both for your responses and for listing those designs... I admittedly have been sheltered when it comes to other designs and only have tried or read about a small handful. It's true that...

Apologies for the resurrection, just looking to find discussion from the past on this subject. I've spent an extensive amount of time on this concept and have found this far that it's the only way to...