"The wax cloth imitation is finished. It's a new process that I used, but it remains to be seen if I'm still positive about it later when it's processed. But it looks good now," says restorer Maria Stolk as she tries to reinvent an old, lost technique. Keeping the carriage maker's craft alive is an important goal of the project for De Haar. The wax cloth is needed to restore the two rags of cloth, called volants, that hang from the seats of the yacht break. The rags were carefully disassembled and cleaned with detergent and demineralized water. In the process, the restorer discovered something special: on the inside of one is written in pencil 'Brak Baron de Zuilen 619' and in the other is 'Brack ... ... . Zuylen', with at the very bottom 14 or 19-01-1907. The year 1907 may be that of a repair. 'Brak' is undoubtedly a corruption of break; the former upholsterer was a craftsman but not a great writer. Other remains of the upholstery include the covering of a backrest. That blue cloth also gets a cleaning and Maria seals the small holes in it. But after that, the upholstery shop is done for a while. The difficult choice of what type of cushion is pushed back, as Maria writes in the progress report, "Found that the English sheet does not meet my quality requirements. It is beautiful on the roll, but when tested it fluffs very quickly on the surface. I am now looking for other material. That is the first reason I stopped upholstering. So the work has been completely reversed. The cushions now come much later."

Also read part 4 of the carriage project by Mario Broekhuis