“We can’t make cloth,” says sailmaker Dayle Tognoni Ward of Traditional Rigging. “That’s where we hold the line.” Exactly duplicating 17th-century cloth would be prohibitively expensive.

The sail makers chalk in the dimensions of the sail on the floor, then roll out the cloth and tick things off. ... On some sails, the seams can be 40 to 50 feet long, all in one neat, ...

North Cloth Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. was the latest entity to come under the North Sails Sri Lanka Group, when the factory was ceremoniously inaugurated by Rishard Badiudeen, Minister of Industry and ...