[Bryn-gwlad] Period-icity/appropriateness of a tent?

[Eule]

If your choices are this wedge or a plastic garage pavilion...PLEASE buy
the wedge!
 
Eule/Steve
Unus sed Leo
 

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On 4/23/07, Eule <eule at ecpi.com> wrote: 

It, of course, depends on how authentic you'd like to be.  If you would
like for it to be from your time and place (not sure what/where that
is), this probably would not work for you as seeing that their
documentation says it's post period.




Well, if I wanted to go period from my chosen time period and place,
that would be a 16th-century German tent such as this one -- 

http://www.mediaevalmisc.com/images/tents/vikki-02.jpg

Given that I do not have A) enough faith in my own tent-construction
skills (I can just about drape a blanket over a broom) and B) do not
want to spend over $1k on an admittedly marvelous tent, I would like to
get a "starter tent" as it were. I don't have a problem with the 10x10
or 10x20 garage tents per se, but it makes me feel a bit odd to sleep in
a big plastic box when I go camping... also they do kind of act like a
big huge sail when it gets windy, not falling down but certainly letting
the outside in. 

As far as I can tell the wedge tents are accurate and the double-bells
are accurate but the single bells, not so much so. Seems a bit odd to me
but hey, I'm not much of a historian!

~Sophie


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