The Complete Canvasworker's Guide: How to Outfit Your Boat Using Natural or Synthetic Cloth

by Jim Grant

Book Overview

These days the canvas we work is likely to be a synthetic fiber, superior to its natural-fiber predecessor in most every way. Today, the average canvasworker's fingers are not like marlinspikes, nor, if you have a good ordinary sewing machine, do they need to be. Canvaswork is unchanged in one sense, though: It can result in an almost endless variety of attractive and functional gear for a boat. The old tars would have envied what we can turn out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877422052
• ISBN13: 9780877422051
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Boat Cover Chapter

I purchased the book with my first project in mind. I planned to make a boat tarp for my husband's small fishing boat. This chapter of the book was excellent for this. Even if you don't have a sailing vessel much of the information in the book can be used or adapted to cover / bag anything you like in canvas. Very usefull.

Sewing 101

This is a great book for people taking on their own projects. Techniques shown here will carry through to many other projects.Worth the price.

The Complete Canvasworker's Guide: How to Outfit Your Boat Using Natural or Synthetic Cloth

My son just bought his first sailboat - a wooden "fixer" but she floats. I have been asked to help with the sewing projects required for her restoration. Very helpful book - was hoping for more info on seat cushions as they are so different from regular household cushions in shape. Overall very good!

Terrific Book

This book is concise and straight to the point. If you are looking for information on how to sew curtains and placemats you will not find it here. If you want to do serious boat canvas work you should have this book in your library.

Great Guide, Lots of information and projects

One of the better canvas making guides out there. I have already made several projects from the book, They are well laid out and easy to follow. A must own for the DIY canvas people...