PE - Tent research--Extant Tent info

Cherie Nolan marguerite at ih2000.net
Sat Dec 9 05:35:20 PST 2000


Thank you Mira. Can you tell me what a Toggle closure is not. I may just may not know the term but have seen one. Marg.



"Mira (Tanya Guptill)" wrote:
> 
> 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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