The squat carbon-fiber craft, its wide and flat top deck dominated by the photovoltaic array, looked a bit out of place among the luxury yachts and other more conventional nautical playthings docked at a marina near the city's financial district.
Richard Rutan, who was first to circumnavigate the Earth nonstop in an airplane, did it in a carbon-fiber craft.
This is also how they treat the farmers who spend over a year lambing, shearing, skirting, and processing the fiber before the crafting process can even begin.
Boyd is a well-known supporter of the arts with a particular interest in crafts and fiber arts.
The Modern Dream sells crafts and fiber arts, all handmade by local artisans.
"Our technology combines biology and computational methods to create performance fibers with carefully crafted properties.
GARRISON -- Fine arts and crafts fair, featuring fiber arts, jewelry, ceramics, paintings, baskets, leather, decorative arts, specialty foods, crafts and demonstrations.
The stem is used in crafts and the fibers are used for making ropes or sacks (Almeida et al., 1998), but perhaps the most promising use of the species is related to its therapeutic and cosmetic properties.
You'll need some appropriate fiber, and spinning is a craft in itself.
RIVERHEAD Long Island Fleece and Fiber Fair, fiber arts demonstrations and crafts, with sheep herding, llama, sheep and alpaca shearing, needle-felting, knitting, weaving, spinning and more.
