Hamock/tarp fabrics?

[Servo]

Iv ben searching and reading alot about fabrics to use for my DIY hammock and tarp but i cant seem to figure out all the specs and terms of everything.

so im wondering if theese two fabricks wuld be "good enuf" for a first DIY hammock and tarp.

Hammock fabric?
http://www.extremtextil.de/catalog/R...oice::474.html

Tarp fabric?
http://www.extremtextil.de/catalog/R...ice::1692.html

[MAD777]

Your choice for hammock fabric is Polyester Urethane coated and therefore not breathable. You will most likely wake up in a pool of sweat. Look for similar nylon fabric but without PU or silicon (silnylon) coatings.

The second choice for the tarp looks fine to me.

[Servo]

Thanks, then i think i found my tarp fabric.
Thou im having trouble finding ripstop nylon that isent coated within Europe thats not to expensive :/
Going to keep looking but any help would be appreciated

[dink]

I have been looking for a DIY hammock fabric too on the same website
and found this. But i´m not sure it´s strong enough.

http://www.extremtextil.de/catalog/R...-sqm::463.html

To give a indication on the weight of the fabric
1.5oz/sq yard = 48gms

[Corncob]

Probably depends on your weight and if you intend to double layer your hammock. If you're light and you are shooting for a DL, you're probably fine. If you're not a light, you might be pushing it. Note: I didn't do any conversion, but there are good weights/nylon weight suggestions on warbonnet's site under the hammock section somewhere.

[FLRider]

Probably depends on your weight and if you intend to double layer your hammock. If you're light and you are shooting for a DL, you're probably fine. If you're not a light, you might be pushing it. Note: I didn't do any conversion, but there are good weights/nylon weight suggestions on warbonnet's site under the hammock section somewhere.

It's located here.

Hope it helps!

[dink]

It's located here.

Hope it helps!

Thanks for the link

[kreecher]

Been having the same problem as Dink and Servo. More than enough (expensive) ripstop on the European market that's coated, but almost none that is not. So I started looking on ebay... Anybody know if these fabrics would be any good: http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Purple-L...item415ef6edcc

They have them in many colors. It doesn't say if it's coated and honestly I can't derive from the info on there if this is 1.1oz, 1.3oz, 1.5oz, 1.7oz or even a different weight of ripstop.

If this fabric isn't good, do you guys than perhaps know of a place where europeans can get pretty coloured, uncoated ripstop for their hammocks without the shipping costs becoming ludicrously high?

Thanks!

[Catavarie]

It is 1.5 ripstop nylon. Good price too, doubt it's coated, maybe calendared but it doesn't say. Would make a good hammock.

[kreecher]

Catavarie, you're the bearer of good news. No clue how you can tell it's 1.5 ripstop, lol. My logic was that it was 2.5 ripstop (because of that line in pink: Weight 70 gsm / 2.5 ounce / 1.7 square yard (you will have)), if there is even such a thing, which I doubted, hence my posting it here.

Pwetty-coloured-WBBB-clone here I come.

Now to decide which bright colours go well together, because my clone will have an overcover too. Purple & yellow ... black & red ... black & green ... blue & berry ... This is going to be one tough choice.

UPDATE: fabric is PU coated on one side... guess it's a no-go for a hammock since I already sweat easily. The search continues.