TENT - Re: A-frame tents

[Tanya Guptill]

M'lord Simon,

Not only are we practically neighbors (I am in Three Mtns), but it sounds
like you and I are working on much the same project :)  My next tent is a
Norse A-frame.

The only good primary Norse tent info I've seen is the extant tent from the
Gokstad find.  I have two archeological books coming through inter-library
loan, that detail the items from Gokstad, and can give you a review on their
contents as soon as they arrive.  I don't know just how hard core you are
going in making your tent, but I can share with you what I know and what I
have.  The Gokstad tent has a wool membrane (I am still researching the
weave), had decorative heads carved on the four upright supports, and was
very large.  I've heard of someone doing a 2/3 replica, due to its size, but
haven't heard of anyone doing an exact duplicate yet.  I have good, exact
line drawings of the heads, if you want copies.

There is a page with good, wool, handsewn Norse tents at
http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/manchester.htm.  It shows a picture of some
heads from the Gokstad find, but the tent-maker contends that they are
actually from furniture, and I cannot verify this, my information showing
they ARE from the tent.

I've taken the liberty of forwarding your questions to the Anstorran Tent
Guild (I'm a member--it's open to other Kingdoms) and to a couple tent-making
Laurels from An Tir.  If anyone has a recommendation for further research, I
am hoping they will share with both of us :)

Best of luck to you on your project!  If you enter it in Summits A&S, I'd
love to come down and see how it turns out.

In Service,
Lady Mira Silverlock McKendrick

sam_bennett at hp.com wrote:

>           I was searching for online sources for Norse a-frames and
>           stumbled across your site.  I am looking for primary source
>           documentation for the tents and can't find any.  I have seen it
>           in the past and have a really great pattern but I would like to
>           document the thing for Summits A&S in March.
>
>           Any ideas?
>
>           Sam Bennett
>           a.k.a. Simon Karlsson
>           sbennett at teleport.com

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