The use of multi-part braided slings appears to be returning to the marketplace. In the fabrication of these slings, generally a single wire rope is braided or helically laid back against its own body to form an eye and eye sling. By design it allows the sling to have the relative bendability of the component wire rope plus a high strength value based on the sum of its parts. The number of component wire ropes in a multi-part sling could be as many as nine or as few as three.