Composition: 60 % cotton, 40 % wool Weight: 205 g/m² according to the manufacturer, 275 g/m² counted by us Size: 7 Reinforced front wrap cross carry No woven wrap manufacturer is such a legend as the German Didymos, founded in 1972 by a mother of four, [...]
Composition: 55 % cotton, 45 % Tencel Weight: 297 g/m² declared by the manufacturer, 283 g/m² counted by us Size: 6 Back cross carry Do you sometimes have the feeling that basically all the wraps of the world are woven in Europe, too? And that the [...]
One could say hand-woven wraps kind of live in the time and space of their own - they look different, their tying is different, their behavior in the carry is usually slightly different than in their machine-woven relatives. I do not consider myself an HW specialist (and I never will) - there are only [...]
Composition: 50 % combed cotton, 50 % linen Size: 6 Weight: 250 g/m² (counted by us) Variation of back wrap cross carry with a ring, front cross carry Attentive readers of this blog must have noticed that I love tsumugi (especially Kenhuru tsumugi) and tussah (again, [...]
Composition: 100% cotton Weight: 250 g/m² (declared by the manufacturer), 248 g/m² (counted by us) Size: 7 Front cross carry The most basic of all the basic Yaro wraps, laconically called Broken Twill (i.e. as one of the basic types of weave) is, in a way, [...]
Composition: 50 % recycled cotton, 50 % recycled plastic Length: 206 cm Weight: 230 g/m² (counted by us) Do you remember the hand-woven AYU Nenes de Leche? Estrellita, meaning ‘little star’ in English, is its pink/apricot sister. I was not particularly intrigued by the blue AYU as [...]
Composition: 97% cotton, 3% rayon Weight: 330 g/m² Size: 6 Double hammock There has a been a sort of Dekka-mania among the Czech babywearers on the social networks lately - I have not noticed anything similar happening in any other Czech or foreign wrap-fan group, in fact. The cause of [...]
At the very beginning, I need to give some space to two different Polish babywearing brands in this article. I first saw Kavka as a wrap conversion made of a Pabelle wrap, and later also a Kenhuru conversion. I was especially intrigued by the blue Pabelle Llama wrap conversion; however, buying a carrier I [...]
We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of a wrap and a carrier in the first part of our Babywearing 101 series. Whether you chose to wear your baby in the first or the latter, it is quite probable that you will have to choose a carrier one day, even if you want to use [...]
The porfolio of ROAR, i.e. the younger and less-badass brother of the super-badass Wild Slings (which we reviewed last spring and repeatedly last year's autumn - here, here and here ;) ), has grown substantially since their first release in March 2018. The designs of ROAR have also changed - they moved from the [...]