Sailcloth vs. Canvas — What's the Difference?

Sailcloth encompasses a wide variety of materials that span those from natural fibers, such as flax, hemp or cotton in various forms of sail canvas, to synthetic fibers, including nylon, polyester, aramids, and carbon fibers in a variety of woven, spun and molded textiles.

Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes. It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame.

A heavy cotton canvas or strong synthetic fabric used for making sails or tents.

A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painting

A lightweight cotton canvas used especially for clothing and upholstery.

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A strong, durable fabric suitable for making sails for ships or boats.

A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, traditionally used for tents and sails.

Duck or canvas used in making sails.

A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed.

A strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents

A painting executed on such fabric.

A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework.

The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative

(Nautical) A sail or set of sails.

A tent or group of tents.

A circus tent.

(Sports) The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place.

A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

(painting)

A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

A painting, or a picture on canvas.

A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.

(figuratively) A basis for creative work.

(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.

(nautical) Sails in general.

A tent.

A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

(Nigeria) Athletic shoes.

Obsolete spelling of canvass

(transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.

Obsolete spelling of canvass

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; - used for tents, sails, etc.

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.

A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

Heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)

An oil painting on canvas

The setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account;

A tent made of canvas

A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

The mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete;

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Cover with canvas;

Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning;