I have just acquired a flock of navajo churro sheep and one llama. Along with the sheep I got some of the wool from the last sheering. I do some spinning, weaving and crocheting, and I have a deerskin ready to be brain tanned. I really want to make an historically accurate sling from these materials. Any suggestions? I've been assuming that because the apaches raided the navajo routinely and used slings that I could just follow the directions in the article on traditional apache slings using wool and buckskin and end up with something accurate, but thought I'd float this and see if someone could point me towards some additional info. Also, I may have access to yak wool, cashmere (goats), angora (rabbits) and a host of north american plant fibers (nettle, milkweed, flax and others). I have the skills and tools (primitive and historically accurate) to process all of these things, and want to get started soon. I hope to post pics of some reproduction slings here as they are done, but maybe there is a more appropriate thread for that?

@sasquatchslinger- I noticed you do blacksmithing- yeah we can definitely trade!

The apache sling is not the best for making with wool. Spun wool is very stretchy, it really needs a more complex braid than the 3 strand braid shown in that tutorial. You'll need to learn something like these if you want a useable wool sling: http://backstrapweaving.wordpress.com/tutorials/tutorial-palma-and-margarita-bra ids/

Does someone made a comparison about thickness between the two braids(margarita and palma) ?

I got the hang of palma braid due to the somewhat understandable step by step videos, but the explanations for the 16 string got me confused....

Ive just learned loads from this thread, thx all.
 
I now have the tutorials to learn these complex braids, but how do I make the elongated flat pouches associated with these Andean slings, like for example this one,  
 
http://perso.wanadoo.es/hondero/sling13.htm
 
when ive braided to the pouch what next in other words?