sailcloth
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thumb|300px|Sails made with synthetic fibers. Sailcloth is cloth used to make sails. It can be made of a variety of materials, including natural fibers such as flax, hemp, or cotton in various forms of sail canvas, and synthetic fibers such as nylon, polyester, aramids, and carbon fibers in various woven, spun, and molded textiles.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
29 sectionsContents
- History
- Western traditions
- Austronesian traditions
- Modern fibers
- Nylon
- Polyester (PET)
- PEN fiber (Pentex)
- Kevlar
- Technora
- Twaron
- Spectra
- Dyneema
- Certran
- Zylon (PBO)
- Vectran
- Carbon fiber
- Weaving
- Films
- PET
- PEN Film
- Scrim and strands
- Laminated sailcloth
- Woven-film-woven
- Film-scrim-film or film-insert-film (film-on-film)
- Woven-film-scrim-film-woven
- Woven/scrim/woven
- References
- Further reading
- See also
thumb|300px|Sails made with synthetic fibers. Sailcloth is cloth used to make sails. It can be made of a variety of materials, including natural fibers such as flax, hemp, or cotton in various forms of sail canvas, and synthetic fibers such as nylon, polyester, aramids, and carbon fibers in various woven, spun, and molded textiles.
==History== thumb|Volunteer wins the America's Cup in 1887 with cotton sails
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