Webbing For Outdoor Gear and Backpacks
Straps for packs, harnesses and soft luggage that hold their length in the wet and their colour on a sunlit rack.
What Goes Wrong In This Trade
- Shoulder straps that lengthen under a loaded pack and never come back
- Shade drift between the webbing, the cord and the trim on one product
- Tape that soaks up water and doubles the weight of a wet pack
- Retail samples that fade in a window before the season ends
What The Specification Has To Deliver
- Dimensional stability under sustained tension
- Low moisture pick-up so wet weight stays close to dry weight
- Colour held across webbing, cord and elastic on the same product
- Widths and thicknesses repeated exactly between production runs
Ranges That Suit Outdoor Gear and Backpacks
Polyester Webbing
Dimensionally stable polyester tape for straps that must hold their shape, their colour and their rated load outdoors.
Polypropylene Webbing
The lightest webbing in common use, dope dyed for colour that cannot wash out and priced for high volume assembly.
Jacquard Webbing
Your logo woven into the strap itself on computer jacquard looms, so the branding cannot peel, crack or wash off.
Elastic Webbing
Woven elastic tape that recovers to its original length, specified by stretch percentage rather than by feel.
Cord and String
Round and flat cord for drawstrings, handles and hang tags, matched to the webbing on the same product.
Typical Applications
- Shoulder, sternum and hip belt webbing on technical packs
- Compression and lashing straps on duffels and soft luggage
- Branded pulls and grab handles woven with the brand name
- Elastic retention loops for poles and bottles
- Drawcords matched to the main strap colour
Why Buyers In This Trade Use Us
- Polyester tape with moisture regain around 0.4 per cent, so wet strength loss stays small
- Polypropylene option that takes roughly 30 per cent of the weight out against polyester
- Webbing, elastic and cord dyed against one colour reference on the same order
- Jacquard plate archived so next season's repeat matches this season's strap
Items Worth Looking At First
Polyester Tape
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Polyester Tape
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PP Tape
Polypropylene Webbing Tape No 1
PP Tape
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Jacquard Tape
Jacquard Webbing Tape No 1
Jacquard Tape
Jacquard Webbing Tape No 2
Elastic Tape
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Elastic Tape
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Capabilities
Background Reading
Orders From This Trade
A Holiday Order Sprint Air Freighted to Cambodia
An urgent order landed days before a national holiday with a fixed 10 May deadline and an air freight booking already made. The factory rescheduled the break rather than move the date.
Honouring Quoted Prices Through a Raw Material Spike
First quarter polyester webbing orders were accepted before the New Year. Yarn prices moved sharply afterwards. The quoted prices stood.
Questions Outdoor Gear and Backpacks Buyers Ask
Which webbing should I specify for a loaded shoulder strap
Polyester in most cases. Its low moisture regain means the strap behaves nearly the same wet as dry, so it does not lengthen in the rain the way nylon does.
Can you supply webbing, elastic and drawcord in one matched colour
Yes, and ordering them together is the point. All three are dyed against a single reference and checked against each other, not only against the swatch.
How fast can we see a physical sample
3 to 7 days for samples, then 7 to 15 days for production once the sample and colour are approved.
Specifying Webbing For Outdoor Gear and Backpacks
Send the application and the failure you are trying to design out. The fibre choice usually follows from that in one message.