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Re: [at-l] silk bag liners
B&KP wrote:
> I'd really like to get a silk liner for my bag (um, well, *when* I get a
> bag, that is...) and saw one in my MEC catalog for between $46 (small) and
> $52 (long) Cdn.
Wow - that's cheap!
> Says it's made specifically for MEC bags (they make their
> own & sell W. Mountaineering) but I can't figure how it wouldn't work for
> any other bags since it looks like your typical mummy shape.
Maybe their bags are cut narrower or wider, but I can't imagine that
they wouldn't work with other bags. They probably are just made to fit
the MEC ones better.
My question
> is, assuming there are different qualities of silk liners, would the
> temperature rating vary greatly from brand to brand? I don't know much
> about how different qualities of silk liners compare, or even if there *are*
> different qualities of silk liners... Help?? :)
I can imagine that the temp ratings can vary a bit depending on the
weave and the thickness of the weft and warp yarns (the strings that go
up and down and side to side). I will also guess that most silk liners
will be comperable because one of the main caveats is the low weight -
too heavy a liner and there goes half the reason to buy one.
As I said before, the ones from Design Salt only weigh about 4.7 ounces.
If the MEC liners are about the same weight, they are probably pretty
similar in quality (i'm not talking about the actual construction, but
the quality of the fabric itself).
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