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Brilliant English Upcycling of old sails

Dave Warnock

Dave Warnock

25 Nov 2020

Today I found Sails and Canvas (in Topsham, Devon):

Lifestyle products
Made in Devon
from recycled sails

Absolutely brilliant! :-)

We will have to sail to Topsham and on the way decide which of our many very old sails are past being usable for us so they can become great new things :-)

Thanks to Clean Sailors on twitter: Follow @CleanSailors and @SailsCanvas (as well as us @SustainSailing of course)

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