PE - Period Grommets?

[Tanya Guptill]

Case in point:

http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/alfonsox.htm

Mira

Stephen Wyley wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Tanya's email has got my brain working again.
>
> A lot of the Eastern tents in ms show a darker patches where the guy
> ropes meet the roof just above the roof edge, possibly indication
> re-inforcing.
>
> > > Any documentation on grommets in medieval tents?
> > > Did they use the "ring & whipstitch" method (I tried it - not as easy as it
> > > sounds!), or the "pound together" method we use mundanely?
> >
> > A great question!--and one I am still pondering.  My only evidence for grommets, besides the
> > paintings of ropes emerging from holes that have a ring that is a different color than the
> > fabric, is this:
> >
> > --part of a very late period Roman (late period for Rome, that is) tent, which has a grommet
> > type fastener on it
> > --an intriguing discussion on grommets in period sails.  The contributor had evidence that the
> > period sails used a ring of bone, then the whipstitch method to nearly cover the ring with
> > thread, then snip out any remaining center.  Unfortunately, I don't have his sources on this,
> > but I thought it was interesting.
> >
> > It might be worth seeing whether metal grommets were used in period armor, to see if they
> > existed during our time period.
> >
> > Mira
> >
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> Bye for now,
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> Stephen Francis Wyley
> stephenw-hrt at nmit.vic.edu.au
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> Conservation and Applied Science Department, NMIT
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