WW2 Canvas Material

[David Dunlop]

Rob.

Thank you for taking the time to post that information. It is VERY helpful!

Bruce.

I would appreciate that. You are right, I cannot match the colour I need in Canada it seems, with a practical quantity of correct canvas duck, so am likely going to get pushed south of the border to get that matched up properly.

So far, the steel bar for the curtain is the only thing I can source locally.

David

[rob love]

I have bought canvas at a Winnipeg fabric shop in neutral colour and dyed it with off the shelf dye to get a very close match to the 37 pattern colour. I think it was from Mitchells fabric in downtown Winnipeg, but I'm sure other shops carry it.

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by rob love

I have bought canvas at a Winnipeg fabric shop in neutral colour and dyed it with off the shelf dye to get a very close match to the 37 pattern colour. I think it was from Mitchells fabric in downtown Winnipeg, but I'm sure other shops carry it.

There is an extensive website on the colours and restoration of 37 Patt webbing, Blanco and Bull, which features a page on how to make modern day dyes that closely replicate the WW2 shades https://www.blancoandbull.com/repro-...-cream-method/ Although it improves the condition and waterproofness of the canvas, this looks time consuming for a piece of webbing. I'd hate to try doing a Truck Tarp!

[Mike K]

Good luck if you need 100 percent cotton canvas. It's nigh on impossible to find around here . The modern stuff has synthetic fibres in it and has a much finer weave . Readers will laugh but Aldi sells canvas drop sheets that have a vintage coarse weave and the Aldi sheets are a plain undyed cotton which looks more authentic.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

So far, the steel bar for the curtain is the only thing I can source locally

I dunno....it's a magnetium cupro-plantasium alloy stamped out of a non-plusular circumgated sheet. Not easy to replicate today....