Sailcloth
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
Encyclopedia article on sailcloth (canvas) and sailmaking from the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It covers fibres (flax, cotton, hemp, ramie), thread counts and widths, British Admiralty yarn and canvas specifications, and the sixteen canvas grades. A table gives weights, bolt lengths, reed, thread counts and breaking tests for canvas Nos. 1-8. The second part describes how sails are cut, seamed, roped and fitted, and lists the sailmaker's tools.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »