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Tarpaulin: Canvas Strips Sewn Together and Tarred
A tarpaulin is a large waterproof sheet; the word comes from the tarred canvas palls that covered things on ships. Sew canvas strips into a sheet, stitch reinforced eyelets at the corners and sides for ropes, then brush warm tar into the cloth and let it cure.
The picture: tar being brushed onto the canvas skin of a curragh, Aran Islands.
Intermediate
Three days
Instructions
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1
Sew the strips
Sew the strips
Cut canvas strips to length and overlap their edges by 3 cm. Sew each seam with two rows of stitches, then fold and hem all four edges.
Materials for this step:
Cotton Canvas9 m
Cotton Thread60 mTools needed:
Hand Sewing Needles
Scissors
Ruler2
2
Eyelets
Eyelets
At each corner and every 50 cm along the hem, pierce a hole with the awl and work buttonhole stitches round it, through a doubled patch of canvas.
Materials for this step:
Cotton Canvas0.2 mCotton Thread20 mTools needed:
AwlHand Sewing Needles3
3
Tar it
Tar it
Hang the sheet on the frame outdoors. Warm the tar in the double boiler until it brushes easily and work it well into the cloth on one side.
Materials for this step:
Beech Tar3 kgTools needed:
Bamboo Drying Frame
Double Boiler
Wide Paint Brush
Leather Work Gloves4
4
Cure
Cure
Leave it hanging in the air until the tar no longer comes off on a finger, then give it a second thin coat and cure it again.
Materials for this step:
Beech Tar1 kgTools needed:
Bamboo Drying FrameWide Paint Brush5
5
Strips
Strips
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Materials
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