A Costa Marine fabric design on a Viking ship. Fabricator Donna Costa says there’s a trend these days toward gray fabrics, both light and dark. Photo: Costa Marine Canvas and Enclosures Most people that have a boat have fabulous homes and have worked with designers,” says John Kelly, interior designer and president of WBC Design [...]

This project was fabricated by Canvas Girl, a canvas shop in Key West, Fla., that involved a helm enclosure with snaps, DOT fasteners and straps. Shop owner Jen Jarland says, “It takes a lot of different body actions to accomplish this kind of install.” Photo: Canvas Girl Sewing techniques and fabric expertise are obvious critical [...]

©Boyarkinamarina Dreamstime.com While some organizations are still grappling with quiet quitting or the aftereffects of the “Great Resignation,” fabricators and textile and fabric manufacturers are facing a somewhat different situation—bringing new employees into the industry, which is a predicament that is becoming increasingly important to address. “Many of our textiles manufacturers have workforces comprised of [...]

The author says that always striving to do your best work, with the best materials, on each project means you'll always have happy customers. If you read this magazine with any regularity, you will see many examples of excellence on these pages. These artistic fabricators are perfectionists when it comes to the art of canvas [...]

The design inspiration for how to shape and build the new aft bench was taken from the boat’s existing front bucket seats. Using the angles and shapes from those cushions helped the team visualize the shape of a new aft bench. Where do you begin when you have a blank slate? We recently had a [...]

Full disclosure, I’m not really a marketing guy. When I started AP Consulting more than two years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. And as much as I would like to say I know everything now, I don’t. And that’s OK. The internet is the most extensive repository of human knowledge to [...]