The " Methuen Duck Cloth " the Nevins manufactured was world-renowned as a material for sail cloth and tents for the tropics.
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For wet weather, old sail cloth was made into a coat ( with hat or attached hood ) that was waterproofed with tallow or fat.
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Modern materials have allowed riggers to get roughly the same strength from the sail cloth and rigging rope used two centuries ago at half the weight.
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Protectionist retaliation on the part of the Dutch government made all kinds of import-substitution industrialization possible, in for instance the production of sail cloth and the paper industry.
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In addition, the teens received free sail cloth from Dimension Polyant Sailcloth, a marine company in Putnam, Conn ., and use of a laser-cutting machine from Banks Sails in Norwalk.
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Other families such as the Savilles owned their rope works and bleachery for sail cloth manufacturing, making the village, at the start of the 19th century, a fairly industrious one.
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His skill with a sail cloth and net needle and an almost surgical knack with a blade had led to Dorden to put those skills to use as a medical orderly.
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Through the 1970s and 1980s, Bennett's hang gliding company helped pioneer the basic design of modern gliders, along with improvements such as emergency parachutes and Mylar-coated sail cloth, said Richard Boone, Bennett's former chief designer.
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The hemp fibre has always been valuable for the rope industry, and it was at one time very extensively used in the production of yarns for the manufacture of sail cloth, sheeting, covers, bagging, sacking, & c.
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Moreover, the naval ships built to protect the new colonies and those built to bring the hemp back, also increased demand, as every two years or so much of their two hundred tonnes of ropes and sail cloth had to be renewed.
