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- Exhibition
- Reclaiming My Time
- Created by
- Scott, Sheldon, American, born 1976
- Date
- 2022
- Medium
- paint on cotton (fiber) and wood with steel chains
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 140 × 60 × 4 in. (355.6 × 152.4 × 10.2 cm)
- L x W (Flat): 166 15/16 × 20 1/2 × 1 1/16 in. (424 × 52 × 2.7 cm)
- Description
- 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 made
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Cultural Place
- Pawley Island, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Topic
- American South
- Art
- Communities
- Cotton
- Craftsmanship
- Identity
- Recreation
- Slavery
- Textile design
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2023.98
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Sheldon Scott
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




