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Hemp Skin on Frame
By:Max
Date: 11/19/2000, 12:00 am

Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts about making a skin on frame with hemp canvas, I figured it would work well, the old dutch boats had to have been made out of hemp, canvas is the old duch word for cannabis. What weight fabric would work best though? I'm planning on making a skin guillemot, does anyone else whose made one have any advice.

Messages In This Thread

Hemp Skin on Frame
Max -- 11/19/2000, 12:00 am
Fwd: From someone who tried it
Paul Raymond -- 11/20/2000, 12:20 am
Fwd from Marian Gunkel
Paul Raymond -- 11/19/2000, 6:11 pm
Re: Hemp Skin on Frame
Paul Raymond -- 11/19/2000, 9:16 am
Re: Hemp Skin on Frame
Roger Nuffer -- 11/19/2000, 2:37 am