Artist: Joaquín Sorolla

Medium: Oil on canvas

Year: 1896

Cosiendo la vela (English: Sewing the Sail) is a large-format painting by Joaquín Sorolla from 1896. It is classified as Realism and belongs to the period of the artist’s career following his return to his native Spain after his time in Italy. The painting depicts the light-filled patio of a house in Valencia, where several people are busy repairing the sail for a fishing boat. Sorolla first exhibited it in 1897 at the Salon de Paris.

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Joaquín Sorolla’s colorful oil painting Sewing the Sail depicts five women and two men repairing a large white boat sail in a sunny courtyard. Surrounded by flowers, potted plants, and railings, the group works among bright white, green, yellow, brown, and blue tones.
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[–] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Oh!! I think it is you! Thats hilarious! Can’t agree more on the patterning, that's where you have to get it right otherwise you’re screwed later. I will absolutely make a crap one first! I promise! I can’t use the old one anyways, it’s got holes and had new windows put in twice so it’s all stretched out. We’re building a hard bimini so the side panels will be all new, though they are flat so easier. Also I have made those before, but a long time ago.

See you in a few years!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Hahaha! It's a date! You won't have any problems with the windows, it's a lot like making a quilt or something. We need a sewing machine operator community!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago*

    Lol, I think it would just be us in that community. The venn diagram of sewing machine operators (in the industrial sense) and people that are on Lemmy is almost two separate circles… That being said, I’ve often wished for a community or forum for us. Somewhere to show off our projects or ask for advice. Really, somewhere for all of us in the industry. The composites people, electricians, systems, welders even. I’ve got a group chat with some of the guys from my apprenticeship and we all do different things but it’s fun to see the stuff we find on boats, and we can ask each other for help if a project gets into what the others know. Which they do since a boat is a holistic thing, your projects are never in isolation.

    The school I was working at (where I did my apprentiship) did have a forum, but no one used it so it got scrapped. I think the venn diagram from above alao works for the industry in general. A lot of older folks that can’t be bothered to be online like that.

    And windows are fun! They look so nice with the mitered corners when they’re done.

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