TENT - Need help hanging my walls

[Samuel Walters]

Greetings again all,

Thankyou to all have posted with answers to my questions! And so quickly is
well!  This is such a nice list.. : )  I'm glad that my idea appears to work
well.  and I will remember to place the walls on the inside of the strip!
      As for it being an ambitious first try well...the main consideration
was being able to fit the full size camp bed I am also building on one side
of the center pole!  The material I bought (large 12 X 15 painters tarps, an
idea also gleened from this list and the florigieum sp?) was so cheap (came
out to about $2.75 a yard) that I couldn't help myself and bought four so I
had the equivelent of about 48 yards of 60 inch material. It seemed a shame
to buy it and not put it to good use.  Ha ha..

I have only eight more roof sections to cut the dags for and I will be able
to start sewing.  (shakes his poor carple tunneled hands lots of cutting)

Again thanks for all who have responded to my post.

Yours in our Society,

Rhys Goch
Mka Sam Walters

----- Original Message -----
From: Tanya Guptill <tguptill at teleport.com>
To: <tentguild at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: TENT - Need help hanging my walls


> M'lord Rhys,
>
> Congrats on your new tent!  What an ambitous and spacious choice for a
first
> tent :)
>
> About hanging the walls--I've used the fabric strip with buttonholes
before,
> and had good results.  The trick is to make sure that you use nice large
buttons
>
> and don't space them too far apart.  If you do, you will wind up with the
weight
>
> of the wall pulling down in the place it has been buttoned, which will
make your
>
> walls droop in between, and the bottom of the wall will be uneven on the
ground
> (not very pretty).  Also, you will want to remember that the weight of the
> wall will exert a certain amount of pull on the seam on the roof--be sure
to sew
> this
> so it is NOT opening up on the edge of the roof (you will wake up swimming
> during
> a serious rainstorm, which is no fun).
>
> You mentioned the rope--I wonder if you are talking about Stephen Bloch's
use
> of rope at http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/tents/secondkr.html
> I had the good fortune to talk with Stephen about his tents, and get a
tour a
> couple
> years ago at Pennsic, and was very impressed by the beauty and
practicality of
> his
> pavilions.  On his web site, he mentions the strip method they use, and
says,
> "We're
> not sure whether it's better to have buttons on the strip and
> buttonholes on the walls or vice versa, but important: make
> the walls are inside the strip, rather than outside. This way
> any water that seeps in through the seam where the strip
> attaches to the roof will fall on, and run down, the outside of
> the wall, rather than falling straight down onto whatever you've left near
the
> walls. "
>
> Good advice! :)
>
> Keep us posted,
> Mira
>


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