Not specifically documented beyond the general English term
A cotton hammock-weaving tradition of the Wapishana people of Guyana's southern Rupununi savannah, widely regarded as among the finest in South America. Women hand-spin home-grown cotton and weave it on traditional wooden looms into hammocks constructed with a distinctive double-woven structure — for both strength and a soft nap on the inner and outer sides — finished with elaborate decorative fringes engineered to double as a foldable blanket for warmth on cool Rupununi nights. The craft is organized through the Rupununi Weavers Society, an association of Macushi and Wapishana women based in St Ignatius who have banded together specifically to preserve and market the tradition.
Risk level: Endangered · Not UNESCO-inscribed
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