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Ripstop Nylon: Doubled Threads Woven in Every 5 to 8 mm, Both Ways
Ripstop is cloth with a grid of stronger threads woven in every 5 to 8 mm, both ways (Wikipedia). A small tear runs only as far as the next line of the grid. In the Army's parachute nylon (US 3,032,072, 1962) the rip-stop threads go in as doubled pairs, warp and weft, with ordinary threads between.
The picture: ripstop fabric, the grid of doubled threads showing (Wikimedia Commons).
Intermediate
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Instructions
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1
Wind the warp with doubled pairs
Wind the warp with doubled pairs
Wind a nylon warp. Every 5 to 8 mm, wind a pair of threads instead of one: these doubled pairs are the warp rip-stops.
Materials for this step:
Nylon Fibre300 gTools needed:
Warping Board
Ruler2
2
Dress the loom
Dress the loom
Thread the warp on the loom, each doubled pair kept together as one rip-stop.
Tools needed:
Rigid Heddle Loom3
3
Weave, doubling the weft too
Weave, doubling the weft too
Weave with nylon weft. Every 5 to 8 mm, lay a doubled pick: the weft rip-stops cross the warp ones in a grid.
Tools needed:
Rigid Heddle Loom
ShuttleRuler4
4
Take it off and test a tear
Take it off and test a tear
Cut the cloth off the loom. Nick a scrap and pull: the tear should stop at the next line of the grid.
Tools needed:
Fabric ScissorsMaterials
1- 300 gPlaceholder
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