Do you want paper or plastic??
Are you using it to look pretty (fat chance MM), impress the walnut brigade, or carry rations.
They were origionally intended for toting rations, not ones tooth brush, comb, mirror and makeup case.
Haversacks were food sacks, not fasion accessories.
This indicates grease, oil, occasional bloodstains, crumbs of hardtack, spilled cornmeal/flour/parched corn all settled into the bottom of the bag and rained on several times during a campaign.
Haversacks were consumable items. You used them until they were too rank to stand or sprouted maggots and you threw the tattered, stinking remains into the fire.
They were something your wife/daughter/mother made for you to tote food in, from the cheapest remains of fabric they could find. They stiched your initials on it so no one would steal your food and sent you out the door, never expecting to see the sack again, or expecting it to be in tatters if they did.
Hemp was the cheapest fabric around "back in the day", followed by linen. They are the most expensive today, so replace them with the cheapest thing you can find.
We put way too much emphisis on the pretty, long lasting, hard wearing, exact size, PC issue when they treated these things like we do plastic grocery bags.
Can you imagine the reenactors two hundred years from now arguing over the more superior historic merit of a plastic Target bag over a paper Kroger bag, then trying to mount two nylon shoulder straps on it and make it last five or ten years?
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