Kevlar Cord– High Tensile Strength Kevlar Thread, 50–1500lb Flame-Resistant String for Fishing, Kite Line, Wind Chimes, Camping & Outdoor Survival Rope

This is good stuff. No stretch; strong.

Appears to be good quality, heavy duty kevlar cord. It should be excellent for field repairs, especially of heavier duty items like backpacks and would be suitable for bushcraft use. Lightweight and small packaging, which makes it easy to throw into your pack or camping gear for emergency repairs. You will want heavy duty canvas needles if using for repairing gear.

I chose the 0.8mm size (8-strand hollow-braid).1st impressions using this cord -- I expected this cord to be round like a tiny rope, but it is flat like a tiny shoelace. Simple knots like square knot or bowline work with this cord. (It is NOT slick like nylon monofilament. Yeah, knots weaken the cord. There's sailor and mountaineer lore about proper knots for Kevlar.) This cord resists fraying at a metal hole, but not extraordinary. A freshly drilled hole can cut the cord. Chamfered hole, no fraying. Cord can be cut with a sharp knife, but scissors is better. Even with very sharp scissors, the cut end still frays. Unlike cotton thread, wetting the frayed end does not help getting it through a tiny hole. Can't melt the cut end to stop the fray. (It doesn't get sticky with heat, it just burns.) Soak with glue and then cut is the only way I found to stop the fray. Elmer's or water-soluble glue is less mess.First use was tying a tweezer to my backpack. The tiny tool is easily lost while pulling other stuff out of a zipper pocket. This cord works great. It is almost as easy to use as cotton string, but will last much longer.

Haven't even used it yet but minus one star out of the box for misleading image. The default (smallest, shortest) size selection is much thinner and much shorter. What I am replacing in a wind chime looks like cord as in the picture; what I got looks like heavy thread. Maybe it's stronger than it looks and will hold up in heavy winds outdoors, we'll see. My bad for not noticing that it came in different sizes or considering the .5mm spec, but a picture is worth a thousand words and this one does not vary appropriately with the size selection.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Needed cord to repair wind chimes. Not sure if this is the best choice but it seems like it will hold up well. Very strong string, a bit hard to cut with even very sharp scissors. Worked exactly as I needed and probably will have a ton of uses.

Small & Strong cord. Used to repair patio umbrella but many other applications.

The diameter of the cord was too thin for my purpose. I was restringing a wind chime and it was too thin to be effective for this use. I can’t comment on the tensile strength nor the ability to withstand the weather at this time.

Nice