For these cases I provide a piece of cloth with sails, so you can make a test. The longer cloth is in solution the darker cloth is. We can reach these colors by patination in strong leachate of black tea, coffee, alcohol stain or paint for fabrics. Most of other sails had beige or glaucous color. So for these cases I recommend leave this sails white. Some ships had sails from cutton cloth, which whiten out by using in salted wind and by sun, especially American’s ships, like USS Constitution, their schooners and brigs. There is some following steps need to be done before we place the sails directly on our model: It’s good to take in consider also these things before order. Some of sails was made by colored clothes especially on galleys and xebecs. Patination and printing – Sails was colored to dirty beige mainly because of impregnation and by using. And then if some of them will be furled, or partly furled sails. Here I recommend to buy standard sails or shortened and oppositely skewed sails for imitation of convoluted sails while they don’t too much big bundle on yard. You can for example leave studding and stay sails.

Set up sails on ship – It’s good to think first about if you want to have all sails on your ship or just some of them.

In scales 1: 160 and more are recommending only sails sewed on the canvas, which further adjust. Large scales from 1: xx up to 1: 150 you can buy sails sewn with all the details such as curved edges, reef band, side and corner, or additional reinforcement lining sails. Scale - Before you buy a sails, you must take ito consideration what the model, in which the scale will sails. Stitching is also by thread from 100% cotton or colored synthetic threads. It is also possible to buy canvas itself.Ĭanvas, cloth, stitching – batiste – 100% cotton, grammage – 88 gms.

It is possible to order patinated sails and/or with printings. Historical technical details are considered during production to be the most similar to their original template as possible. I offer great quality cloth sails made on CNC sewing machine, because it’s problem for lot of people to make cloth sails by themselves. Sails are indispensable for sailing ship.I accept plastic sails only as a pattern for real cloth ones. Manual how to use cloth sails to download in PDF HERE

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