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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

Tula Migaloo Happy

Oscha Roses Vanilla

Calin Bleu Gauze Summer Sky

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Firespiral Perran Cirrus Festival
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier tula migaloo happy cotton tencel blend size 3 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Tula Migaloo Happy
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier oscha vanilla roses cotton linen silk blend size 3 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Oscha Roses Vanilla
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier calin bleu gauze summer sky size 6 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
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.

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Firespiral Perran Cirrus Festival
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Calin Bleu Gauze Summer Sky
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier firespiral tentacular spectacular cirrus poseidon size 7 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Firespiral Tentacular Spectacular Cirrus Poseidon
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Bebe Sachi Sister Strength

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier woven wrap baie snow geese teaching wrap size 4 wovens when its warm weather jeeping cool cotton breatheable
Baie Snow Geese
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier woven wrap ali dover elements size 5 wovens when its warm weather jeeping cool cotton breatheable
Ali Dover Elements
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier woven wrap baie elements forest floor size 4 wovens when its warm weather jeeping cool cotton breatheable
Baie Elements Forest Floor
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier woven wrap firespiral cyano verdant birches size 3 wovens when its warm weather jeeping cool cotton breatheable
Firespiral Birch Trees Cyano Verdant

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier firespiral twilight birches size 5 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Firespiral Twilight Birch Trees
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier firespiral teaching wrap cyano size 6 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Firespiral Teaching Wraps Cyano
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier wrapahula forget me not woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Wrapahula Forget Me Not
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier lenny lamb autumn woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Lenny Lamb Autumn

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier Lenny Lamb Herringbone Dark Imagination woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Lenny Lamb Herringbone Dark Imagination
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier warm weather hot Lenny lamb blue zumba woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Lenny Lamb Blue Zumba
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier warm weather hot Liora rae flow brooke woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Liora Rae Flow Brooke
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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.

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier oscha vanilla roses cotton linen silk blend size 3 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Oscha Roses Vanilla
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier yaro la vita linen size 3 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Yaro La Vita
sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier Firespiral Seafoam Cloudburst Cascade Cotton linen viscose blend size 5 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Firespiral Seafoam Cloudburst Cascade

Hemp has similar properties to linen,

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier didymos prima petrol hemp cotton blend size 3 handwoven woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Didymos Prima Petrol

Silk can feel light and cool, whilst being very strong.

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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.

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier firespiral starmap nebula frost wool size 3 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
Firespiral Starmap Nebula Frost

Tencel, a fibre made from wood pulp, can be very cool and lightweight.

sling library hire rent try before you buy baby sling carrier tula migaloo happy cotton tencel blend size 3 woven wrap wovens when its warm weather keeping cool cotton breatheable
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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