what is the most comfortable set up to sleep in wool blankets with? I'd like to try it but want to sleep well enough. is it one underneath and one on top? what about the damp ground coming up through?
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Great video there im going to order some blankets when I get some spare money and have a go,
do they work wel in hammocks?
I have never got on with balnkets so good luck to those that do (like to wrapped in a sleeping bag)
"..Highlanders in my country slept in their plaids. I've slept in mine and been very comfortable indeed. Better than a sleeping bag ? hmmm, certainly easier to carry around, since it's 'worn' rather than packed..."
This is where my pedantic textile loving self comes into play.
Modern wool blankets beat old ones hands down. They are woven thick and then fulled. We all know the difference between a generic 'blanket' and the heavyweight Dutch and Belgian army ones. Night and Day, they really are.
Old ones, including the Hudson Bay ones which are / were, supposed to be the ultimate, are still thinner than either of those two.
Highlanders in my country slept in their plaids. I've slept in mine and been very comfortable indeed. Better than a sleeping bag ? hmmm, certainly easier to carry around, since it's 'worn' rather than packed.
The northern American cord of wood is generally poor stuff and burns at a ferocious rate, in the UK we burn hardwoods for preferance and they do last a heck of a lot longer. I can still see Mors pleased surprise at how little and how long our fires lasted. Lot less work to prep the wood for overnight.
There's one enormous point that folks are excluding from the equation too. Modern living is generally with central heating. That's only common within the past fifty years or so. I still can't sleep comfortably in a heated bedroom, and I'm not alone in that.
It's all very well to say that you're comfortable outdoors during the daytime, but it's a different thing at night.
It's normal to feel cold. Humanity has managed it for millennia and managed to make themselves comfortable.
Big part of the whole bushcraft thing is to carry less by knowing more; to learn to make from natural resources, to learn to be part of the cycle of nature.
I can spin, I can weave, I can felt, I can make a wool blanket
I know how plastic textiles are made, but without a laboratory and factory facilities I can't make them.
Each to their own
M