Sail construction patterns

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I am very interested in trying to make scale sails as per prototype. Can anyone offer guidance for doing this? I am working at 1/60 scale at present and fully accept that compromises may have to be made but even finding out construction methods will be worth knowing.
Any help great fully received.
Pete Collins
 
What ship, nation, year are the sails for? This will help narrow down the number of sources that might be useful.

In general at 1:60 there is no cloth or sewing method that exists that will be to scale. This may not be important to you, but if it is an important factor, you can make them from silk span. There is a $5 book available by noted ship modeler David Antscherl at Seawatch Books as well as a You Tube video by Tom Lauria on making sails from silkspan.
They use similar methods and I found a combination of the two sources worked best for me. If you want to only consider cloth sails, get the highest thread count cloth you can find.

Allan
 
Steel’s book, Elements of Mastmaking, Sailmaking and Rigging includes detailed scale (1/8”=1’0”) drawings of sails for a square rigged vessel. This book dates from the late Eighteenth, early Nineteenth century and the author was British. Reprints are available and I have heard that digital versions are posted on the web.

BY the way, I agree with Allan; use Silkspan, not cloth

Roger
 
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