To enjoy a moment of weightlessness, released from gravity into free-floating drift, to be at one with oneself as well as with one’s environment: a hammock is perfect for deceleration of this sort, for really slowing down and feeling calm. Here, the macramé technique is brought into the twenty-first century in the form of 100% hand-knotted hammocks, which are now being shown to advantage in the communal areas of modern Swiss youth hostels.