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This week’s featured products are three of the most requested items. These three items that are highlighted are 1-inch black nylon webbing, 1-inch blue tubular webbing and large red Martingale collars. Each one of these items is a top-quality product that can be the perfect addition to any project. The Martingale collars are even packaged to be ideal for animal shelters or rescues.
One-inch black nylon webbing is one of the most popular webbings. Nylon webbing is strong and durable, making it ideal for projects that need to hold a lot of weight. It is resistant to abrasion, mildew and water. These qualities are important for many of the items using nylon webbing, such as rock climbing rigging, boat rigging, scuba equipment, horse harnesses, dog collars, etc. For more details of projects requiring nylon webbing, go to Do-It-Yourself Network, and Home and Garden TV . Black is the most popular color of nylon webbing but it is available in many other colors for those projects where appearance is important. It also comes in some neon colors that can be seen easily in low light. The most popular width is 1-inch but it is also offered in ½-inch to 2-inch widths. Matching metal or plastic hardware is also available.
A variation of nylon webbing is tubular nylon webbing which is a hollow, nylon tube. This makes it softer and more pliable. It is has a tensile strength of approximately 4,000 lbs. in the 1” width, 7,000 lbs. in the 2” width. One advantage of tubular nylon webbing is that it ties in knots easier and will hold the knot tighter without slipping. Then when ready to untie the knot, it unties easily – no matter how much pressure was put on the knot.
Tubular nylon webbing is abrasion and mildew resistant like flat nylon webbing. Its flexibility and strength make this webbing popular with climbers, skydivers, furniture makers and the military. Tubular nylon webbing is also used in rafting, kayaking and camping, as well as straps on backpacks, harnesses, collars and slings. Since it is a hollow, nylon tube, it can be used as a protective covering for cables, tubes, hoses and cords.
As with nylon webbing, tubular nylon webbing comes in many popular colors, but the most popular color seems to be blue. Varying widths and lengths of tubular nylon webbing are available as well as matching metal or plastic hardware.
The final featured item is the large, red Martingale collars. The Martingale collar is a humane choke collar with a two-loop design that tightens when the dog is trying to remove its head from the collar, but will loosen when the dog stops struggling. Martingale collars were specifically designed for those breeds of dogs whose neck are larger than its head and can easily slip out of a conventional dog collar, such as Greyhounds, Whippets, Italian Greyhounds, Bolzoi, Saluki, etc.
The unique, limited closure of the Martingale collar makes it the safest of the choke collars because it prevents the collar from becoming too tight so it can be left on the animal even when it is unsupervised. American Kennel Club owners and handlers prefer the Martingale collar over metal chain choke collars. This collar will not damage fur and is less likely to tangle in the long hair of some breeds. The Martingale collar will not tighten enough to injure or crush the trachea.
The Martingale collar is made from strong, durable nylon webbing and high quality welded metal hardware. It can be covered with attractive cotton fabric for a designer look. There are also packages specially priced for animal rescues and shelters, such as the Humane Society , and small dog rescues . These collars are also made from the same nylon webbing.
Questions are welcome and can be addressed to the email or telephone number at the top of this website. We welcome your comments.

The colorful pictures of our Handmade Designer Dog Collars at the beginning of our blog article last week really created an interest among our customers and visitors to the website. We are expecting a lot of orders especially with July 4th coming soon.

As mentioned before, the collars launched our business, but metal hardware caused us to expand. When purchasing collars, some of our customers expressed the desire to buy some of the metal hardware used in the collars, such as dee rings, o rings, side release buckles, or triglides. We were able to begin supplying some of these items at lower prices. We even received requests from customers outside the United States. As word of our products and prices spread through the internet, we received more requests for snap hooks, trigger snap hooks and swivel snap hooks. Our customers were using these items for a wide variety of projects. To name a few, our metal hardware has been used in everything from rock climbing gear, harnesses for horses, rigging for boats, dog collars and leashes, to purses and clothing. Even a costume for a professional wrestler made out of hundreds of dee rings.

Combined with strong and durable nylon webbing, heavy-duty, welded dee rings, o rings, split rings and triglides are used by rock climbing enthusiasts to make or repair climbing harnesses and rigging ( for more information on this topic go to rockclimbing.org or mtnguide.org). Our nickel plated metal hardware is resistant to rust so it is great for projects that will be used around water or moisture. We received many orders for rings and snap hooks or swivel barrel snap hooks from boat owners who were repairing equipment (go to boating.org).

Trigger barrel snap hooks are great for use with flags and flag poles. They will not accidentally open even in strong winds. Small decorative flags can be safely and attractively fastened with our metal hardware for any holiday or occasion. The website usflags.org has great ideas for projects.

Triangle rings and rectangle rings are also available. We have heavy duty welded rings, but we also have light-weight, non-welded rings available for those projects that do not require a lot of strength. For example, purses and articles of clothing usually do not need the heavy weight rings or hardware.

With the many types and sizes of metal hardware available on our website, it can be difficult to find the specific items that you need. So we have attempted to make it a little easier. The first step is to make sure you know what size hardware you need. If your project is using one inch nylon webbing, your triglide or ring, for example, will need to be a one inch width. This is the measurement of the inside of the triglide so no extra size is needed. Each item specifies the size webbing or strapping needed. The second step is to actually find the item you need. By using the titles and subtitles on the left side of the page when searching for metal hardware, we have reduced the number of pages that must be looked through.

Let’s use dee rings as an example: A customer needs 5/8-inch heavy-weight, welded dee rings. The first step is to go to countrybrookdesign.com and look to the left side of the home page. Under the gray title “Metal Hardware“, find “Dee Rings” and click on it. This will expand to give choices of different sizes of dee rings. Since the customer is looking for 5/8-inch dee rings, click on “5/8-inch” and that will expand to show all dee rings available in that size. All ordering and shipping information is explained with each item, but please call the number at the top of this page if there are any questions or if a certain item cannot be found.

Well, that is probably enough for now. Remember to look through metal hardware category for clearance and free shipping items.