Here are a couple of new sling designs.  Please excuse the poor picture quality.  Better pictures will follow shortly.  First is a double barrel sling.  Fundibularius came up with a brilliant over and under design so I figured we needed a side by side.

  Again, I apologize for the poor picture quality.  There's also smaller seven strand snowball sling I'll post later.

   Thanks.  That's a good point, Bill.  The thing is that the sling was extremely difficult to make.  I did have some mason line that I could have tried to use, but it's so darned slippery I don't know if I could have pulled it off.  Also, mason line would soak up some water, if not quite as much as the jute I used.  I chose jute for two reasons; first, it's very easy to work with.  Also, due to a very generous friend, I have literally miles of it.  Your suggestion is well taken and I'll give it some thought.

Bill, you think it'd matter much either way? I mean water soaked into nylon braid freezes like it does inside any other material.   I have nylon ratchet straps holding the ladders on my service van, and I carry extra every winter for when they freeze and the only thing that removes them is my pocketknife.

Any chance we can see that double barrel in action? Looks like fun.

ratman, if your jute is anything like mine, soak the hell out of the sucker. The glue in the jute from processing will turn rock hard when it gets wet- so when you go and sling you'll have a sling soaked in frozen water, and glue in the way. Keep soaking it and you'll get rid of the glue, I usually do it in three, 6 hour periods (afternoons, I'm ballparking the hours). I'll rinse it under water for a while, twisting it tight and soaking it again, before just setting it down for a few hours, before repeating.

You might be able to wax the sling too. Never tried it before but I think it'd be pretty beneficial.

Good looking slings and nice tight weaving job!

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   You're right.  They all do sort of stem from the same basic model, Rambo.  I do use materials besides jute, but I have a lot of it plus I like jute a lot so that's mostly what I use.  
   LightSlinger, if you want to make a double barrel sling like mine start by weaving six lengths of jute.  Be sure to make EVERYTHING extra long and leave lots of room. Weave three groups of two lines, making the standard three strand flat braid.  When you get to the middle change the braid to two groups of three strands staying with the three strand flat braid.  Make two pjs (or whatever sling pouch you like) side by side.  I think it's easiest to make them per my alternate sheep shank tutorial.  Then whip the two groups of three strands together as you see in my picture at both the retention and release end of the pouches.  Then reconnect all of the strands by going back to braiding three groups of two strands in the three strand flat braid again.  
  It's a little difficult to explain this exactly without doing a proper tutorial but I think that you can look at the picture and get a general idea of which way to go.  There are many different ways to do this so you might come up with your own version.  Eventually I'll do tutorials on the double barrel, ten strand snowball, and seven strand snowball slings.  

    Thanks.  The way I worded it may be confusing.  The cords have six strands divided into three groups of two strands braided into a three strand flat braid.  When you get to the pouches you divide the six strands into two groups of three strands braided into two three strand flat braids used to make the two modified five strand sheep shank slings per my alternate method tutorial.  I can see that this is no less confusing.  I'll have to do a tutorial.