Editing Loft (section)

===Mould loft===
A long building at a [[shipyard]] with a considerable floor area on which the lines produced by a [[naval architect]] can be laid off in their full dimensions. After that the full-size drawings can be copied with the aid of wooden moulds to which, in turn, the steel frames or, in the case of wooden vessels, the hull moulds, are fashioned (see [[lofting]]).