Woven Wings: Mr Jackson

Shepherd's carry and natural lighting.

I will start by saying that Mr Jackson is a wrap that I borrowed from a lovely winglet a few months ago and have thought about ever since and then I ended up buying one of my own so this review is a little bit biased ;-)


Mr J, as he is commonly called, is a linen cotton blend wrap from the Beatrix Potter line from Woven Wings. He is a lovely navy blue and dark green geo patterned wrap.

Initially he feels a little bit "rough" thanks to the linen but breaks in very quickly. Once broken in he becomes very soft and floppy.

There is very little stretch to Mr J and passes glide well (though not like butter) for multi-pass carries.  There is a little bit of grip, for example, when tying ruck under bum I don't have to worry about that first knot slipping while I go to make a second knot, it's not going to budge while I double knot.

Basic ruck tied under bum

There is little to no ace-bandage in Mr J, which isn't really surprising given the linen content and lack of stretch.  This is actually the most interesting thing to me about the wrap because typically ace-bandage is my #1 favorite thing in a wrap, but Mr J has won my heart anyway.

There is plenty of support with this linen blend, even with my 25 pound toddler and sometimes when people hear "support" they think "dig" and Mr J has very little to no dig at all in my opinion. I used this wrap in all sorts of carries from shepherds to FWCCTUB to basic RTUB and it was perfect in all of them.

The colors are almost good enough to distract from the lint on my shirt.

I spent a great deal of time trying to articulate the kind of "soft" that this wrap is.  A lot of people say "blanket" soft but that's not the kind of soft that Mr J is. To me that makes me envision something squishy snuggly, which isn't what Mr J is, to me. He has plenty of cush but I wouldn't consider him blankety.  What I ended up realizing is that he is soft like my favorite pair of jeans. I have an ancient pair of American Eagle jeans that are thinner denim but have been worn very heavily over the many years I have had them.  Mr J is soft in that way. Inherently a little bit more dense than a blanket but still very floppy and comforting.

Mr Jackson is a wrap that I find amazing for toddlerhood and with heavier babies and still plenty gentle for a newborn.  The only thing I, personally, would miss from this as a squish wrap is moldibility because I love wraps that "hug" newborns when they are tiny.

The official kitty seal of approval.