I have found someone selling some nylon fabric. The weight is right, but she has a smaller amount of ripstop and more taffeta. Will that work?
Good point Ramblin...... I am going to make a two layer hammock.
Rick
I have found someone selling some nylon fabric. The weight is right, but she has a smaller amount of ripstop and more taffeta. Will that work?
Good point Ramblin...... I am going to make a two layer hammock.
Rick
Last edited by krwitkowski; 02-18-2009 at 08:40.
I don't mean to be dense... but will it work for what?
I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.
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Some Hennessys are made from taffeta. I also think one of the fabric options on the Blackbird is also taffeta.
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I am not an engineer so I may wrong with this... but...
It is my understanding that taffeta is less stretchy than ripstop. For one thing it is thicker. That being said... A certain amount of stretch is desirable in a hammock but too much or too little is no good. _I_ would probably make a double out of ripstop over taffeta for that reason. (My opinion on this and $1.39 will buy you a cup of coffee down at the local quick stop.)
Too much stretch disrupts the flatness of the lie and too little means pressure points if I understand correctly. Teffeta is great for single layers... but I am not so sure about double.
I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.
"Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
Mrs. Loftus to Huck Finn
We Don't Sew... We Make Gear! video series
Important thread injector guidelines especially for Newbies
Bobbin Tension - A Personal Viewpoint
that may be, the single 1.7 (taffeta) is a good bit less stretchy than the single 1.1(ripstop), it's also .6oz heavier which effects things as well. it's still nylon though so it does stretch. my heaviest hammock is the dl1.7, and it's still comfy for me at only 160, not much stretch going there at my weight, but the comfort isn't diminished by less stretch, at least not for me. i thought a low stretch polyester hammock was great, while others think they have too little stretch.
krwitkowski, what's the weight of the fabric and how much do you weigh?
Yeah... pay attention to WBG... he knows what he's talking about.
I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.
"Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
Mrs. Loftus to Huck Finn
We Don't Sew... We Make Gear! video series
Important thread injector guidelines especially for Newbies
Bobbin Tension - A Personal Viewpoint
I have found some taffeta, but it is quite transluscent... Do you think this would work? I would double the hammock anyway for a pad. Not sure of the strength, but from what Warbonnetguy has said it may be worth a shot??
I have just made my first order for the materials for my first Hammock. I will let you see it when it is done.
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Do we have to use some external site to host them like photobouquet?
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In clothes, ripstop make sense as JustJeff pointed out one time. For a Hammock, the ripstop threads wouldn't stop a rip in an occupied hammock unless the occupant was very, very light. Ripstop is used mainly because it is available and because most others use it and so recommend it.
I use only polyester in all of my Bridges now simply because of the much reduced stretch. The polyester gives a much better and flatter lay in the Bridge Hammock.
The stretch in nylon accentuates the butt drop in a hammock. The polyester does stretch, but considerably less than nylon and so the butt drop is reduced a LOT.
Everybody that I used to test side-by-side nylon and polyester Bridges, much preferred the polyester. The fabric was the only difference between the 2 hammocks. They were identical otherwise, made from the same pattern. I used 1.9 nylon ripstop in one and 1.8 microfiber polyester ripstop in the other.
I use only microfiber polyester now. Not ripstop, since I can no longer get the ripstop. The microfiber has a very silky feeling even with DWR, whereas the nylon always had a stiffer, crinkly feel with the DWR.
I would agree with the polyester in the bridges. I made a prototype bridge with polyester and it did lay flatter. I found this out ... after I made a double layer ripstop bridge. Using two layers of ripstop ... I still think the polyester was a flatter.
My concern was over breath-ability of polyester?
poly and nylon should breathe similar all other things being equal.
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