Sailor bags

Our kids activity this week is a step-by-step tutorial for sewing your own ditty bag

Sailmaker’s Ditty Bag.

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…

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Explore a visually captivating collection of ditty bags, showcasing the craftsmanship and functionality of these sailor's essentials. #LetsGetKnotting

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

Sailor's Ditty Bag - Imgur

Naval Duffle Bag