TENT - Side poles.

[Stephen Wyley]

Hi All,

> Stephen, did you find any evidence of this while compiling your tent database?
> (For those of you unfamiliar with this, Stephen has an amazing online reference
> for tents, at
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/intro.html).

So far I have nothing on side poles in tents before the 18th century.

> > My name is Lyle the Philosopher (mka Lyle McMillen), from the Shire of
> > St Florian de la Riviere, on the east coast of Lochac (West Kingdom).  I
> > have just joined the list, and have an interest in pavillions and tents
> > in use in Europe during the 1470's (my household is focussed on 1476,
> > principally around Burgundy and France).

For more information on tents in your period see:

1470's (Chroniques de Angleterre)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/15thcentury/1470s.html

1471 A.D. (Frontin, Livre des Stratagemes)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/15thcentury/1471-1.html

1472 A.D. (La Savlt de Beavvais)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/15thcentury/1472.html

1475 A.D. (The assault on Ribodane, "Life and Times of Henry V ")

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/15thcentury/1475-2.html

Late 1470's (Jean de Courcy; ‘Chemin de Vaillance’)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/15thcentury/l1470s.html

1480 A.D. (Diebold Schilling’s ‘Amtliche Chronicle’)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3696/Tents/15thcentury/1480-1.html


> > Also - we used untreated loomstate canvas, and encountered significant
> > mold problems at the spring Rowany Festival (it rained, and rained, and
> > for a change, rained a little more).  Is there any information out there
> > on period techniques for preventing or removing mold from canvas?

Ah the rain of Rowany, at least with the new site the drop loo's 
don't overflow!

 
Bye for now,

Stephen Francis Wyley
stephenw-hrt at nmit.vic.edu.au
Technical Officer
(Plant Tissue Culture, Chemistry and Soil Science)
Conservation and Applied Science Department, NMIT

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