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Stitching It Together: Sailmaking from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution and The Historic Sail Research Project (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel F Howe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sailmaking is among the most central, but least studied facets of historic seafaring. Extant information is scarce and although iconography illustrates general sail plans, the actual structures of sails from antiquity to the Industrial Revolution are largely unknown. The Historic Sail Research Project was started by master...