Paracord does stretch, but if you make this hammock out of paracord you will not notice hardly any stretching. That being said, you need to plan on how large of a hammock you want so you know how much paracord you will need to order. Throughout the rest of this instructable, I will refer to a strand of paracord in two separate ways. The background strands (are wrapped around the loom - See Step 22) and the foreground strands (are anything brought into the hammock with the netting needle - See Step 24).

I ordered 5000 feet of paracord because I didn't want to run out of any particular color and was alright with having leftovers.

***All of the following information are stats based on an 8 foot hammock bed***

***Use this info when planning the size and look of your hammock***

This hammock has 11 sections in the bed and is 35 inches wide

Each of the 11 sections contains about 300 feet of paracord

Each of the sections of this hammock is a little over 3 inches wide

There are 188 strands of paracord running the length of the bed (100 background and 88 foreground)

Each foreground strand will have 46 stitches resulting in a total of 4048 stitches through the whole bed

In total, the hammock weighs nearly 10 pounds which means it contains nearly 2500 feet of paracord

For this hammock you will need: