PE - Tent research--Extant Tent info

Mira (Tanya Guptill) tguptill at teleport.com
Fri Dec 8 22:48:23 PST 2000


Forward from rec.org.sca. The author is Nils K Hammer, who has a wedge tent
design on his web page (link below).  -Mira

Nils K Hammer wrote:

> Burg Rabenstein 11 Oct 2000
> Traveling museuum show "Die Ritter Sind Zureuck"
> Item: Tent, 16th Ct. Katalog# 308-310
> made of twill panels ~15" wide
> door edges have a reinforced weave
> side ropes have a 1 1/2" button which passes through roof edge
> wall toggled to roof every 6"
> tent is an oval ~10 steps x 5 steps (meters)
> cloth ridgepole keepers are tied on
> The door closures have _remarkably_ slight string loops simply sewn on
> straight vertically to the door edge. Loop is about 3 1/2 inches.
> these are the same on each edge. The toggle closures are _not_ permanently
> attached. Toggle buttons are very small, 1 1/2 inches. Imagine one as
> two cones attached at the base by a narrower 1/4" long column. To attach
> one, pull a loop straight, then fold it over and through itself to make
> an opening. Pass toggle into the opening and settle the rope into the
> gap between the cones. Pull tight and it ought to stay on.
>
> I guess I really have to make a drawing and put it on my website. It
> will be hard with the decrease in the number of Macs around here. At
> least I am vindicated in my insistance that tied straps are simply too
> inconvenient to be period. My tent uses toggles (nyah, nyah), but this
> system is probably better than mine; the toggles will be easier to make
> in that they do not need holes drilled in them, they are removable for
> packing.
>
> Nils K. Hammer
> nh0g at andrew.cmu.edu
> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nh0g/nils.html

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