Woven wrapping may look like something to get hot and bothered about to the casual observer, but there are ways to keep cool when you’re wrapping. Here is our handy list of things to consider when wrapping in warm weather.
Carefully select your carry:
Single layer carries can be a great option:

Front Wrap Cross Carry

Kangaroo Carry Tied under bum

Ruck carry
- Front Wrap Cross carry (base size carry or base -2 if tied under bum) with cross passes bunched
- Kangaroo (base size carry or base -2 tied under bum), or its reverse equivalent,
- the Ruck (tied under bum with a base size-4, with reinforcing rope pass and chest belt from base-2 and reinforced with a knotless finish with a base size wrap)
- Simple hip carry and traditional hip carry are both doable with a base -4
- Robin’s AKA Looped adjustable hip carry (tied under bum with a base-2 or reinforced with a base size wrap).
All of these have just the one layer of fabric over the baby and mostly not too much over you.
Shorter wraps mean less fabric. Browse our woven wraps to hire for our lovely short wraps.
Co-ordinate your colours
Darker colours absorb heat, so choose lighter colours, to reflect it.
We have a whole selection of light coloured wraps. Some of them are featured below.
How about:
Firespiral Perran Cirrus Festival
- Firespiral Perran Cirrus Festival
- Tula Migaloo Happy
- Oscha Roses Vanilla
- Calin Bleu Gauze Summer Sky
Weigh your options
We have some very light weight wraps. Calin Bleu wraps are a gauze wrap, rather than a traditional woven wrap fabric and we have a size 6 in Summer Sky and Scarlet
Favour the right fibre
Another thing to consider is the blend or fibres from which the wrap is woven.
Cotton is present in most wrap blends in our library, and it is a breathable fibre, in a light weave this is a lovely warm weather fabric. Here are some of our all-cotton wraps.
- Firespiral Perran Cirrus Festival
- Calin Bleu Gauze Summer Sky
- Firespiral Tentacular Spectacular Cirrus Poseidon
- Bebe Sachi Sister Strength
- Baie Snow Geese
- Ali Dover Elements
- Baie Elements Forest Floor
- Firespiral Birch Trees Cyano Verdant
- Firespiral Twilight Birch Trees
- Firespiral Teaching Wraps Cyano
- Wrapahula Forget Me Not
- Lenny Lamb Autumn
- Lenny Lamb Herringbone Dark Imagination
- Lenny Lamb Blue Zumba
- Liora Rae Flow Brooke
- Girasol Light Rainbow
- Be Lenka Rainbow Mandala
- Sycha Slings Retrobots
Linen often considered a summer clothing fabric, which is often woven in a thinner weave, you can get a very supportive, relatively cool fabric- this is often blended with cotton.
- Oscha Roses Vanilla
- Yaro La Vita
- Firespiral Seafoam Cloudburst Cascade
Hemp has similar properties to linen,
- Didymos Prima Petrol
Silk can feel light and cool, whilst being very strong.
- Oscha Roses Vanilla
Bamboo can be a luscious, sleek, cool feeling natural fibre too.
Even wool, which is often considered to be a winter jumper staple, can be a good summer wrap option in a lightweight weave in a light colour, as it wicks moisture away from the skin avoiding you feeling too hot and sweaty.
- Firespiral Starmap Nebula Frost
Tencel, a fibre made from wood pulp, can be very cool and lightweight.
- Tula Migaloo Happy
And of course, in addition to all of this, the general warm weather babywearing tips apply too
Place a damp muslin between the two of you.
Dampen your clothes, but not those of the baby as they have less good thermoregulation than adults so are at risk of being cooled too much.
Wear large hats to keep sun off you.
Keep to the shade in hot periods of the day.
Dress appropriately under your wrap keep to a few light layers
Keep you and baby well hydrated.
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