Crack open a sailmaker’s toolbox and you’ll find a few key instruments needed to create a sail by hand. Fabric, scissors, and an industrial sewing machine are a few of them, but sailmaker Francois ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Springer would rather be on a superyacht. And he often is. And the bags they’ve recently begun making (tote bags, handbags, ...
THE four-masted ship Washaway lay rolling in the trough of the sea, in a calm gap in the Pacific Ocean, walled in by the westerly winds and the Northeast Trades. The flapping of the sails had started ...
The visionaries planning the Menil Collection's Cy Twombly Gallery were stumped. They wanted to install a series of stretchy, cloth ceilings that would allow art lovers to view the paintings by ...
MOBILE, Alabama-- Thomas S. Dabney, a Gulf Coast sailmaker who contributed to successful America's Cup designs early in his career but choose to return to Mobile to start a family business, died July ...
YEAR. IN THE LAST BIG ONE THAT WE BUILT, WE USED PRESS RINGS, YOU MIGHT SAY BEN SPERRY FOUND HIMSELF HERE VERY MUCH BY ACCIDENT. IT WAS IN THE SKIING INDUSTRY AND BROKE MY LEG REALLY BADLY OUT WEST ...
In a quiet textile workshop in northern Germany, far from the dangers and turmoil of war, Syrian refugees Mohammed Alsahani and his son Yousef measure, cut and stitch sailcloth to precise designs. The ...
Crack open a sailmaker’s toolbox and you’ll find a few key instruments needed to create a sail by hand. Fabric, scissors, and an industrial sewing machine are a few of them, but sailmaker Francois ...
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