Sleepingbag liners

[PT1029]

I've used sleeping bag liners for years - much easier laundry when using a down bag.
Polycotton is fine but bulky, silk very nice, light, very compact to pack, but er a tad fragile (esp if you toe nails have sharp corners.....).
For 2 (friendly) people, sewing 2 single liners to gether results in a very fragile liner (always getting strained/torn at the seams).
Does anyone have any solutions to this?, either a tougher material which is a compact as silk (not tried kevlar yet!), or some means to improve the silk (may be a strip or 2 of thin lycra, so the lycra stretch takes the stress out of the silk?).

[BeeKeeper]

I've used a silk liner for a couple of years without problems. A pair of scissors to keep toe nails trim may be the reason.

[nmnm]

Local tk max had liners made of nylon. Good price and weight, probably not awful for sleeping in and prob quite good for strength. Not tried them myself.

[pjclinch]

The finest silk liners are pretty delicate, but just come up to a tougher one and the price in weight and bulk isn't that much and you get a much more durable liner.

We use JagBags "Endura" silk ones, and thus far are very pleased with them. We got them when our very fine Rab silk liners started looking distinctly second hand!

http://www.terrevistatrails.com/ is the web site, various options including doubles.

My warmest silk liner is a fairly heavy number that a pal brought me back from Kathmandu. He took an ME cotton liner in to the souk, found someone working in silk and asked for a copy, cost about £2! Have a similar double one that another pal brought us back from China where it had set her back pennies.

Pete.

[PT1029]

Thanks for the replies, I expect it will be a new bag. The existing one is so patched it matches the worst road in Oxfordshire through our village....
Incidentally, its not the toe nails, more the elbow (or hip) moving round and suddenly running out of material as the other half (or a bit of me) is resting on another bit, preventing it move with said elbow or hip.

[andymiller]

I've been using a Decathlon silk liner for ages (probably more than 300 nights) without any problem. Maybe you got one that was particularly thin and fragile?

I've no idea about double liners but presumably someone makes them.

[PT1029]

In the end got a terrevista trails double silk liner - wider than previous one we had (it's 2 singles sewn together) which works well. Been used afew times, space to turn over in without feeling as though you are about to tear something. Hand made in NZ if I recall correctly.

[jamesgilbert]

I was also looking for a double width silk liner, in the end I got the RAB one online. It's expensive but seems very durable - no signs of wear after two months of camping this summer.

[jags]

how would these silk liners fair out in a mummy type bag. stupid question i know (never used one) but would it not get all tangled up and twisted

[foxyrider]

how would these silk liners fair out in a mummy type bag. stupid question i know (never used one) but would it not get all tangled up and twisted

Thats the combination i use, never really any more issue than getting tied into my duvet at home!

My recent trip to Switzerland where the overnight temps were often into the 20's i used the silk liner as a sheet or a superlight bag if it got cooler. Never leave home without one.

[jags]

cheers foxyrider.

[pjclinch]

how would these silk liners fair out in a mummy type bag. stupid question i know (never used one) but would it not get all tangled up and twisted

I mainly use liners in a mummy-type bag, and I'm a fairly restless sleeper, and I don't have particular problems with tangling/twisting.

Pete.

[mercalia]

I use an old duvet cover as a liner

[ScotchEgg]

I prefer to go 'commanndo'

[el flaco]

I'm still using my egyptian cotton yha liner, now forty years old.