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The Olasul Sailor Sack ($112) looks like the perfect summer bag. Made from cotton canvas with a water-resistant rubber base, these guys ar...

1774 watercolor by 2nd Lt. Gabriel Bray of the 44-gun "Pallas", Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis commanding The hand tools of the rigger and sail maker remained remarkably similar from the mid -18th century to the dawn of the 20th. The industrial revolution would eventually produce innovations in cotton sailcloth manufacture, machine sewing and metal grommet construction. The folk art embellishments found on some of the items used by sailors on wooden ships unquestionably reached their…

American 18th century Ditty Bag linen with hemp lanyard I wanted to inhabit my 1760-1780 American merchant seaman's impression more fully than just wearing the period-appropriate clothing I had researched and documented for it. Lacking a berth on an appropriate vessel, and without the time, resources and youthful audacity to devote to months at sea, I decided to concentrate on certain elements of marlinespike seamanship that I could practice at home. I elected to begin with construction of…

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Making a traditional sailor's ditty bag. This one was a sailor's rigging ditty bag and carried his tools for sail making and marlinspike work