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the unsung strap holding your life, luggage, and parachute together without ever asking for credit
means Strong woven fabric made in narrow, tightly interlaced strips, used as straps in belts, harnesses, backpacks, furniture, and safety gear where flat strength matters.
from From "web" — Old English "webb," meaning a woven fabric or something spun, the same root that gives us the spider's web and the weaver's "woof." It traces back to the Germanic verb for weaving (cousin to German "weben"). The "-ing" turns it into the stuff of weaving itself: webbing is, quite literally, the woven thing — the name simply describes how those load-bearing straps are made, thread crossed over thread until they can hold a falling body or a packed trunk.
- seatbelt origin
- woven nylon webbing replaced fragile leather straps
- frog feet
- webbing turns toes into built-in flippers
- tensile beast
- a one-inch strip can hold over 4000 pounds
- climbing trust
- climbers literally hang their lives on it
- spider physics
- silk webbing outpaces steel in strength-to-weight
spider web silk — orb-weaver spiders produce silk with tensile strength of 1.3 gpa, stronger than steel
duck feet webbing — palmated membrane between toes of mallards and other waterfowl for swimming propulsion
military tactical webbing — molle (modular lightweight load-carrying equipment) system adopted by us military in 1997