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More about historic sail textiles
P George
Historic sails seem to be a popular topic now!
Here is a story posted about a 120yr old herring-fishing ship named The Swan, by The Global Yell, a wonderful textile blog from Shetland. https://www.globalyell.org/blog/swan
The story mentions a finishing process formerly used in Shetlan called “cutch” that helped to protect and strengthen sails.
Thought everyone who enjoyed our recent thread on spinning for sailing textile would want to see this too!
Bests,
Patrice George
jody Williams
Thank you for The Swan. The Osberg Ship, dug up from the protective mud was intact except for sails. After much study and speculation, the archeologists have decided it had woolen sails.
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Jody Williams
On Sep 12, 2021, at 7:32 AM, P George <patriceny@...> wrote:
Historic sails seem to be a popular topic now!Here is a story posted about a 120yr old herring-fishing ship named The Swan, by The Global Yell, a wonderful textile blog from Shetland. https://www.globalyell.org/blog/swanThe story mentions a finishing process formerly used in Shetlan called “cutch” that helped to protect and strengthen sails.Thought everyone who enjoyed our recent thread on spinning for sailing textile would want to see this too!Bests,Patrice George