Cordura doesn't like being heat dried as it can ruin its waterproofness. Something to do with the heat altering the chemicals, I thinks.
Heat drying leather shortens the life of it quite a bit by stressing it, stripping the oils and generally farking it.
Hanging everything up in a small, heated room is safer. Not gas heated, as that puts shedloads of moisture in to the air and totally defeats the purpose.
If things are getting damp because the waterproofness is breaking down, you could respray it with Scotchguard waterproofer.
It's brilliant stuff. I used it to reproof synthetic horse covers which were in use through an Eketahuna winter - meters of bloody rain a year! Made the covers better than new and the nags were toasty dry.
Illuc ivi, illud feci.
Buggrim, Buggrit.
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