sailcloth

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Odom once used a worn piece of sailcloth as a tablecloth, added napkins with frayed edges from Target, and scattered magnolia leaves as decoration.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023

She encouraged them to keep up their personal hygiene, exercise, write to friends and draw on a piece of sailcloth.

From Scientific American • Apr. 16, 2021

This solar lantern, made from recyclable sailcloth, also emits a remarkable amount of light and is super lightweight.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2020

Just as important, political and military leaders foresaw that future wars would require foundries to cast cannons, mills to weave sailcloth, and roads to move troops.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

They stayed in port there only briefly, long enough to refill a waterskin, and to buy a tar-smeared sailcloth to protect some of their gear in the undecked boat from seawater and rain.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin