Originally Posted by
hutzelbein
...I don't think that you can save much weight, though, for several reasons. Quilt fabrics and hammock fabrics are very different; quilt fabrics are usually very light, have not much weight bearing capacity and are calendared to be down-proof and to offer better wind resistancy. Hammock fabrics need to be more robust and are usually not calendared to be more breathable. In addition, the hammock fabric will be stressed along the seams from the quilt weight, which can lead to shifting threads. This issue gets worse the lighter the hammock fabric is. You would either need to use a fairly heavy down-proof hammock fabric, or you would need to build a double layer hammock (which seems to be the common way)...
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