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Reply #30 - May 9th, 2006 at 8:12am
 
There can be many reasions why you do not understand what I mean, e.g. my bad description.

Basically we understand as much the old texts as you did understand my text.  Cheesy They are talking about one and about three cords or something similar. It is not clear from the text if there are three separate cords/ropes or if a cord is made/braided from three threads. When you look at depictions of slings there is an Etruscan sling which looks very similar to the braided sling shown in Bollinger's guide. The difference is that the pouch is not made from two, but from three strings. (Besides the missing knots the pouch looks similar to Lund's simple string sling.) Another type is seen often esp. on later depictions: a single strap of material without any slits and splits. Here the pouch (and everything else) is one "cord". That would fit the textual description of one/three something.

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Reply #31 - May 15th, 2006 at 1:01pm
 
I just made A very effective strip sling from leather. It is 42 inches long from the center. Half a inch wide except the center wich is three inches wide. On one end I have a 5 inch slit in the center of that end, to use as a wrist loop
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Reply #32 - May 15th, 2006 at 3:41pm
 
Aye curamba!

That is confusing....

So the archaic sling is a regular split pouch, Etruscan a split pouch with an extra string in the center, and Balearic a woven pouch or woven strap sling?  Just want to make sure I have these seperated correctly, because I want to make one of each for a display....

Also, do you mind giving me the references to each of the various types so I can look them up myself? 

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Reply #33 - May 15th, 2006 at 4:10pm
 
It is asumed that Archaean == Etruscan (three cord split pouch) and Balearic == "pouchless" strap. All is seen in Voellings article. It is probably not allowed to copy it, but I will make drawings.

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Reply #34 - May 24th, 2006 at 11:22am
 
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Reply #35 - May 24th, 2006 at 1:41pm
 
i recently found a kid's bible book with a story about the david and goliath.  in it, there are some pretty detailed drawing of the sling that he is depicted as using.  the sling appears to be a strip sling with a pocket attached, without interupting the strip at all.  i will post pics when the other computer(and its scanner) is up and running again.
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Reply #36 - May 25th, 2006 at 7:58pm
 
Based on Dan's braiding guide I made an Etruscan (possibly Archaean) sling. Main cords are with 12 strings like in Dan's description, but around the pouch I inserted another 18 strings. So the pouch consists of two outer straps with 12 strings each and one middle strap with 6 strings. The detailed description is at http://www.mbsks.franken.de/slinging/slinging.html#EtruscanSling . Photos of the sling will be available around monday.

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Reply #37 - May 28th, 2006 at 8:04am
 
Now a photo of that sling:

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More photos at the above mentioned page.

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Reply #38 - May 28th, 2006 at 8:14am
 
that's a nice sling
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Reply #39 - Jun 25th, 2006 at 2:53pm
 
My tablet woven sling is now done!

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Reply #40 - Jun 25th, 2006 at 2:56pm
 
That is a nice piece of sling you have there.
So it did work in the end.

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Reply #41 - Jun 25th, 2006 at 3:12pm
 
Yes, thanks. I got faster and got it more even at the end. I think the time for 10cm was at the end 20 minutes. But I still think having tablet woven once is enough.

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Reply #42 - Jun 25th, 2006 at 4:48pm
 
that is a nice sling.   you say it doesn't work well?  that is a shame.  good thing it doubles as a belt.  Grin
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Reply #43 - Jun 25th, 2006 at 6:03pm
 
It might be the weight or air drag, but I just did a quick test, so it could also just be that I am not used to it.

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Reply #44 - Jun 25th, 2006 at 6:25pm
 
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