The Love That Casts Out Fear is a generous size 3 wrap with blunt ends, measuring approximately 3,4m in length and 73cm in width. It has a tencel weft and is thus better washed by hand. The wrap can also be ironed gently, if needed. The density of The Love That Casts Out Fear is around 369 gsm, making it a heavy weight wrap. It is woven with the beautiful two-sided twill and plain weave combination - a larger size version of "The Pearls" which I got fond of with Staffasharu already. Despite the weight The Love That Casts Out Fear did not in any way come across as particularly heavy whether held in hand or worn in a carry - instead, the wrap felt airy and cloud-like to me. The black weft beautifully brings the warp colors alive.
Our testing week happened to be very warm with some +25C or more. We wore The Love That Casts Out Fear in carries such as ruck tied at shoulder, poppin's hip carry and shepherd's carry with our 12,5kg toddler and, even if tencel is a lovely cooling and regulating material, due to the density of the wrap it kept us pretty warm especially in multi-layer carries. The Love That Casts Out Fear is soft and drapes beautifully but tencel makes it glidy, these features together demanding a careful wrap job. Consequently, in my experience this was not a very forgiving wrap what it comes to wrapping qualities; our wrappee managed to pop the seat sooner or later most of the times in back carries. When we had the patience and time to tie the wrap carefully it was sturdy and comfortable on shoulders, though.
We have tested tencel in a few other handwoven wraps before both with tencel and merinolux (merino-tencel) wefts, the latest being Verdigris shorty by Rosbacka which also had a tencel weft (my review is available here). Due to its density my experience with The Love That Casts Out Fear was quite different from that with Verdigris which had a much lower gsm. I felt The Love That Casts Out Fear definitely worked better in multi-layer carries than in simple ones with a toddler and it would probably be suitable in a longer size when the temperatures are less high. I am looking forward to hearing the reports from other testers on how they experienced this beautiful wrap.
Again, like with Staffasharu, the overall appearance of The Love That Casts Out Fear is stunning and it made my local fellow babywearers fall in love with handwoven wraps and Paradisaea when I had this wrap with me in a sling meet. I am a fan of Kaisa's eye for colors and the floating selvedges as well as the logo tag and the instructions label all contribute to the aesthetic experience of Paradisaea Handwoven.
I think it is evident for everyone by now that Paradisaea's wraps are not "just wraps" but pieces of art that each carry an important meaning with them. The story behind The Love That Casts Out Fear is about the existence of fear and, more importantly, about the importance of overcoming fear through acknowledging how much it for no reason dictates our lives and choices we make. I had my heart beat faster as I read about Kaisa's experiences behind this wrap and the whole story really spoke to me, making me think of my own life and choices, too. Read the full story of The Love That Casts Out Fear here and learn why the weft Kaisa chose is black.
More photos of The Love That Casts Out Fear are available on my Instagram account. My tester review about Paradisaea's Staffasharu is available here. Please also stop by at Paradisaea Handwoven business page and join the Paradisaea's Stories group to learn more about these thoroughly-thought-of wraps and stories behind them. Thank you to Kaisa for yet another wonderful and all-encompassing tester experience! <3
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