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Hmmm, I looked through there. I saw some stuff that looked waterproof, but I rejected it since I thought it was unsuitable.

I need to learn how to ID goretex, it seems.

When were you there? I found some camo ripstop (old style, not the digital stuff) in aisle 20 by the other camo, and some green and blue ripstop (looked like the lighter stuff) on the wall side of...

Interesting. Not a lot of ripstop when I was there (or else it isn't in aisle 20, as the clerk said), and none of it was waterproof. The clerk says their inventory varies, so I'll check again on my...

If I'm experimenting on a small sheet first, if I take the rest of the solution and put it in an empty mineral spirits can and close it tight, should I have any problem using it for the full tarp a...

Tales of failure:

(Hey, we can't all have success.)

Made a big tarp out of what is ripstop nylon, cheap Walmart stuff.

Figure I'll probably cut the tarp down later, but I'm tall (6'4), and I...

I'm sewing up a hammock tarp and I need to figure out how to attach the ropes to the tarp.

I'm leaning towards just doing a loop of webbing at each position, it's cheap, and the tarp will roll...

I have some off-the-shelf nylon webbing, olive green that I picked up at an outdoors store.

It's 1.5" wide.

What would the typical strength rating of this be?

And what's the typical strength...

What do you mean by double-layered? A hammock with padding between the two layers?

I'm going for my first DIYer hammock, and I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.

I went to Walmart's cheap fabric section and started looking at fabrics. (After all, if I'm going for...