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Cordura is a trademark name for a family of fabrics. This site has an entire page on technical fabrics, which explains their properties with sufficient detail

Cordura is a trademark name for a family of fabrics. This site has an entire page on technical fabrics, which explains their properties with sufficient detail to continue more in depth research elsewhere if needed. If you can’t determine how the Cordura you have in mind is different from the described samples, how do you know it’s the best fabric for your bag?

akavel 4y ago
Please note I mentioned I'm a complete beginner, so I don't know how fabrics differ and in particular what does Cordura mean in detail. Thus that makes it something I would hope a page aimed at beginners would explain. Notably, a different website (https://pangolinswithpacks.com/the-definitive-guide-that-you-never-wanted-backpack-fabrics-566aa1567af9 https://pangolinswithpacks.com/the-definitive-guide-that-you...) linked from the r/myog wiki (https://old.reddit.com/r/myog/wiki/index https://old.reddit.com/r/myog/wiki/index) that I found in the meantime (thanks to comments from others here) does seem to wonderfully clear this out for me, and something like this is in fact what I would love to see on a beginner-friendly website. Until then, all I knew was that the stuff I bought in the past that was advertised as made from Cordura was super durable.
- thinkmassive 4y ago
  Did you first try searching for Cordura to figure out what is? Typing that single word into any search engine should point you to Wikipedia within the first few results. Seems like you’re imposing requirements fora solution without understanding the problem space. Your approach is like choosing a specific microcontroller you want to use before understanding embedded systems fundamentals. Or choosing a JS framework and being upset an “intro to frontend” tutorial isn’t centered around that specific tool.
  - akavel 4y ago
    I read the Wikipedia page for Cordura before, and re-reading it now I still find it opaque and not helping me understand what it actually is, or how it differs from non-Cordura. Whereas the page I linked above definitely helps me more. Notably, I can totally understand a person that knows absolutely nothing about programming could come to me with a question of: "How do I create a website from scratch that would use React?" I would not start by answering them with: "Did you even try googling up what React is?", because I'm quite sure they wouldn't understand the explanation as presented on the internet. I would love to instead explain why they don't need to worry about React yet, and to show them a quick outline of a progression to get there, respecting that the decision to chose React or not is theirs in the end. And also tell them of some alternatives that they might want to explore instead of React at some point, and why.
    - thinkmassive 4y ago
      There’s a big difference between an _interactive conversation_ and a tutorial… Keeping with your example, would also mention every other JS framework that exists? Because that’s a futile effort that will always be outdated.

akavel 4y ago

Please note I mentioned I'm a complete beginner, so I don't know how fabrics differ and in particular what does Cordura mean in detail. Thus that makes it something I would hope a page aimed at beginners would explain. Notably, a different website (https://pangolinswithpacks.com/the-definitive-guide-that-you-never-wanted-backpack-fabrics-566aa1567af9 https://pangolinswithpacks.com/the-definitive-guide-that-you...) linked from the r/myog wiki (https://old.reddit.com/r/myog/wiki/index https://old.reddit.com/r/myog/wiki/index) that I found in the meantime (thanks to comments from others here) does seem to wonderfully clear this out for me, and something like this is in fact what I would love to see on a beginner-friendly website. Until then, all I knew was that the stuff I bought in the past that was advertised as made from Cordura was super durable.

thinkmassive 4y ago
Did you first try searching for Cordura to figure out what is? Typing that single word into any search engine should point you to Wikipedia within the first few results. Seems like you’re imposing requirements fora solution without understanding the problem space. Your approach is like choosing a specific microcontroller you want to use before understanding embedded systems fundamentals. Or choosing a JS framework and being upset an “intro to frontend” tutorial isn’t centered around that specific tool.
- akavel 4y ago
  I read the Wikipedia page for Cordura before, and re-reading it now I still find it opaque and not helping me understand what it actually is, or how it differs from non-Cordura. Whereas the page I linked above definitely helps me more. Notably, I can totally understand a person that knows absolutely nothing about programming could come to me with a question of: "How do I create a website from scratch that would use React?" I would not start by answering them with: "Did you even try googling up what React is?", because I'm quite sure they wouldn't understand the explanation as presented on the internet. I would love to instead explain why they don't need to worry about React yet, and to show them a quick outline of a progression to get there, respecting that the decision to chose React or not is theirs in the end. And also tell them of some alternatives that they might want to explore instead of React at some point, and why.
  - thinkmassive 4y ago
    There’s a big difference between an _interactive conversation_ and a tutorial… Keeping with your example, would also mention every other JS framework that exists? Because that’s a futile effort that will always be outdated.