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The Big Book of Boat Canvas is a thorough revision and updating of Karen Lipe's two popular earlier books, Boat Canvas Cover to Cover and More Boat Canvas, combined with a whole new section on below-decks sewing projects. In this latest volume Lipe ranges well beyond the boundaries of traditional canvas work to create a comprehensive guide to fabric work on board. You'll find dozens of traditional canvas projects--sail covers, awnings, duffel bags, dodgers, and Biminis, wind chutes, winter covers--all with clear, step-by-step instructions, generously illustrated. You'll also find dozens of not-so-traditional fabric projects to add comfort and a touch of elegance to your below-decks spaces: custom interior cushions, fitted sheets and daycovers, privacy curtains, lee cloths, even a tablecloth to fit your varnished table. Lipe offers a veritable minicourse in interior yacht decoration, dozens of useful sewing tips, a careful detailing of materials nad tools needed for each project, and an extensive discussion of modern fabrics appropriate for exterior and interior use. In short, this handy book covers everything you need to know to sew comfort, utility, and style into your boat.

"A treasure of functional and fanciful projects you can sew yourself."--Multihulls

"You'll find this book of the utmost practical help."--The Ensign

It passed what is for me the acid test of a how-to book: The Big Book of Boat Canvas made me want to get at some long-neglected projects and even to try some that I never thought I could manage."--SAIL

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Good starter book
 
Review Date: January 1, 2002
Reviewer: A. Gott, Chattanoga, TN USA
This is an excellent book for the aspiring canvasworker. Covers everything from the basics of tools and materials to step by step directions for projects of all sorts. You can save a fortune by doing canvas work for yourself, and this is a great way to get started.
The Big Book of Boat Canvas
 
Review Date: February 6, 2009
Reviewer: Snapdragon, Elgin, IL USA
This book is awesome! It has lots of ideas for canvas projects for our boat. I can't wait to get started!
Great Beginners guide...
 
Review Date: January 1, 2002
Reviewer: A. Gott, Chattanoga, TN USA
This is a great guide for the beginning canvas worker, has a lot of great general information as well as step-by-step directions for a number of projects for both exterior and interior use on boats. Highly reccomended!
The Big Book of Boat Canvas: A Complete Guide to Fabric Work on Boats
 
Review Date: August 4, 2008
Reviewer: Red Jim's Girl, Eastsound, WA
Not bad for a beginner - I was looking for something with more precise info - I know how to make duffle and tote bags and I know how to pick out fabric. I wanted clear and concise info on how to cover boat seat cushions and some of their strange angles.
Big Disappointment
 
Review Date: June 9, 2006
Reviewer: Patrick Moloney, New York
What a disappointment! This is not a book about boat canvas, this is a book about sewing arts and crafts in canvas on a boat. Projects include "A simple duffel bag", a "Life Jacket Bag", a "Bicycle Bag"; and under "Interior" are projects like "Sheets and Quilts" and "Curtains". There is some discussion of exterior boat canvas, but the information is cursory and focused on sailboats. If you want to increase your knowledge of boat canvas before laying down a few thousand dollars to have new canvas made for your boat, this book will not help you.

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