Nice looking sling. My slings are more utylitarian. I'm a one of those lazy slingers, who prefer slinging than making slings

Jurek

You are a very skilful craftsman. I'm not.

I understand and can relate. Normally I am one of those lazy slingers too. I just became intrested in how to make a good looking sling for "dress" occassions.

Marc Adkins


Yurek wrote on Dec 29^th, 2006 at 5:29pm:

i once made a very similar sling from 1/4 inch cotton rope with the core removed.  i wove the pouch with jute twine.  it came out well, and i gave it away as a gift.

my dress slings are the apache style with leather pouches sewn on.

Admiral.Galloway,

Just right.

Matthias posted

detailed instructions

recently, using nylon cord or something like that, but the technique is the same.  Matthias's pouch has eight warp strands, but with thicker cord or leather thongs you need as few as three warp strands (which is what Jaz's has).

You are correct, Willeke, they are not the same in many details (though they are similar in general).  I spoke imprecisely, and may have mis-led some readers.  Matthias stretched a number of warp strands on a primitive loom (two cup hooks screwed into a board) and then wove the weft strand through the warp.  My simple woven sling was made by tying a sheepshank three-strand pouch, and then used that as the warp and wove a weft strand through the warp.  Of course, I was copying

Klarh

and

Neolyth

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Well, that all depends on what you mean by "string."

The one-string sling (besides being an alliterative name) is a string made from one string: the pouch is made from the middle portion by folding it into three sections and tying a couple of knots.  But when dealing with the pouch itself, it is convenient to disregard the endpoints and speak of each of the three pieces of the pouch as a string.  It is simpler to speak of the left string, the middle string and the right string, than to speak of the piece of the pouch that extends from the retained cord, the piece of the pouch formed by folding the cord back, and the piece of the pouch formed by folding the cord back again and which then continues to become the release cord.  Bleah!  Too many words!

In any case, Jaz seems to be using "one-string sling" as a name for a particular style of construction, because he himself states that he made it from two bootlaces (and I think I can see where he joined the two, to the right of the pouch) and then wove a third bootlace through to make a "solid" pouch.

OK, have I beaten this dead horse enough?  I'll shut up now...