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| USA Hammocks offers the finest hammocks in the country
shipped direct to your doorstep. We feature the top two hammock brands:
The Original Pawley’s Island Rope Hammock and Hatteras Hammocks. Please
read below on the history of these premium hammocks. |
The Original Pawleys Island
Rope Hammock® was created in 1889 at Pawleys Island, one of the oldest
summer resorts on the South Carolina coast. Captain Joshua John Ward, a
river boat pilot who barged rice and supplies between nearby Georgetown
and the great rice plantations of the South Carolina low country, found
the grass-filled mattresses on his boat too hot in the summer.He decided
to make a cool and comfortable cotton rope hammock for use on his boat.
After several uncomfortable designs, Cap'n Josh made a hammock using wooden
spreaders without knots. This original design has proven to be so comfortable,
that it is still used in our popular hammocks, over a century later.
Using the highest quality materials, our hammocks are available in the traditional
all-cotton rope or the soft spun polyester rope. Our custom designed stretcher
bars are cut from seasoned Carolina red oak, then steamed, bent, drilled,
sanded, and varnished -- all to impart a comfortable sway to the hammock
and to spread the rope evenly for optimum stability. |
As an onlooker in our
weaving room, where the hammock is knitted, you will find yourself keeping
time to the rhythmic motion of the skilled native craftsmen. As they work
a needle of rope in and out of the hammock body, they create symmetric patterns
and lend a touch of art to the unique and interesting craft. You can often
hear the enchanting sounds of "gullah" in conversation and song,
which represents a distinct southern low country style of dialect and unique
part of our American heritage.Once the hammock body is woven, it is connected
to strong plaited ends
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and then strung through the
oak stretcher bars. Nautical bowline knots attach the ends to the body of
the hammock. Upon final inspection, each hammock is marked with the traditional
metal tag to ensure its authenticity as an Original Pawleys Island Rope
Hammock®.
Hatteras Hammocks® has been in business for over 25 years. It was in
the early seventies that the company founder, Walter Perkins Jr., began
selling out of the trunk of his car a few hammocks that he had purchased
on business trips. Mr. Perkins disassembled one of these sought after rope
hammocks in his garage and set about improving it. "This was a perfect
example of a hobby becoming a business," states Mr. Perkins. The first
of Mr. Perkins' new and improved "Hatteras Hammocks" was sold
to friends around his hometown of Greenville, NC as well as taken down to
the coast of North Carolina and sold to visitors in that area.
In 1971, Hatteras Hammocks® was incorporated. By 1987, Hatteras Hammocks®
had grown at such a rate as to become the largest rope hammock manufacturer
in the world. Today, Hatteras Hammocks® continues to be the industry
leader with continuous additions to its innovative product line that include
hammocks, stands, swings, and hammock accessories, as well as state of the
art improvements to its manufacturing capabilities. Hatteras Hammocks®
is known for working hard at making relaxing easy. |
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