Intifada, great seatbelt sling.
I also like the led-glandes.

Here I show you my newest sling. I looked for a middle eastern shepherd sling and found two online-
shops (holylandtreasures and osmungifts) which sell slings made by bedouins. After printing the pictures
I tried to figure out how they are woven and made this one from jute and cotton.
The cords are twisted, the retention loop was formed by splicing.

I would be interested in seeing a step by step tutorial for that, including the coloured stripey bits. Any chance? 

I like it, but those gaps on the pouch make it seem like it won't last as long.

Lakeslinger I think that's so cool to look at a picture and recreate it! Hats off to you and all your beautiful slings!

Tomas wrote on Apr 11^th, 2013 at 2:39pm:


Thanks a lot for liking my slings! 

When you put a lot of work in a sling like the woven ones and it performs well on slinging AND others than you like it, that`s really a good feeling. This is one reason why I post pictures of my slings. But even if a sling doesn`t turn well in my or others` opinion, there`s always some feedback or ideas for improvement given here on the forum. Another reason is to give ideas and inspiration to new slingers, like it was given to me from the moment I discovered slinging.org

David Morningstar wrote on Apr 11^th, 2013 at 11:12am:


I´ll look what I can do. In fact I have some difficulty to make a photo tutorial, cause I make nearly all of my slings out of home, often making only some steps in the same place. That works well, but is complicated to take photos of every step.
But yes, I plan to make up to three tutorials for this kind of sling.
The simple woven one colour shepherd sling pouch (see http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1172017416/3105 ; reply #3118 and #3119) of which I already posted a drawn tutorial
(see http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1172017416/3150 ; reply #3155-3157).
Then I`d make tutorials for two methods how to weave stripes, the simpler one like it can be seen in the zebra sling http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1172017416/3510 and the more complicated method with the stripes composed of small "V"s in the last sling.
The 36 pictures for the first tutorial are already complete and resized, I only didn`t find the time to post them yet.
So for the other tutorials please give me some time, I hope, I can do them as soon as possible. We always need tutorials on this forum to learn one from each other.

By the way: I liked the twisted cords you made on your York-sling so much, that I started to learn twisting and splicing. It`s so much faster than braiding and I like the "seamless" look of the spliced parts. At the moment I´m working on two long-corded apache slings, one with twisted cords but braided pouch strings, and the other made of two twisted cords which I overlapped and spliced together to make the pouch. I´ll post them when they`ll be finished.

So here they are, the two slings with apache pouches, but longer cords made from twisted jute.

In the upper one the two cords of the pouch are braided. I started from the release tab which consists of the 4 cord strings and an additional doubled string that was woven in, the two ends then spliced into the cord. Before the pouch 2 folded strings were added, the pouch cords were made as a 4 strand round braid, then I twisted the retention cord using the longer 4 of total 8 strings and spliced the short ends into it. The finger loop was made by splicing, too.

The one on the bottom was made by first twisting two separate jute cords from 4 strands each. Then I overlapped them and marked the pouch section by short whippings on each end. Outside of the whippings I spliced the shorter ends into the main cords, then I made the finger loop the same way. The whippings were removed and the leather sewn on.