SCA Stories From the Wolf: Tent Thoughts...

I Should have blogged about some garb I finished before festival but uni is getting in the way and I cbf...

Anyway. I have one last presentation assignment tomorrow and an Exam in two weeks and I'm done with my BA and will be a fully graduated Taxation Accountant. I plan to start my CPA next year and take a 6 month break.

Did you know? It is 3 and a half months unit my birthday?! I didn't either!! What do I want this year?? I want a tent! Wooo. So the main purpose of this blog is to formulate all my tent ideas onto one area.

I really don't see the point of spending so much money on a tent if its not going to be done right. I really want it to authentic to period design, but I also want it to be a tent that my personal might use during her time.

And yes, Apparently the design I want is going to be obnoxiously large. If I'm spending the money, Why not.

Only this is, will I be able to afford it with my Europe trip next year? Maybe...

SHAPE.
Since last year I've been wanting an oval shaped tent. I like the usability of the square tent, but I want to be able to make separate "rooms" in my tent. I want to have a side for my bed, a side for dressing and a centre area for a door on each side and a sitting room/ entertainment area.

Here are some pictures of the shape I want:

The only issue I see here is with all the pictures of oval tents the middle section is the widest and the sides are smaller. I plan to fit a queen sized bed in one half and need the distance from the centre-side pole to the wall to be at least 2.5 metres. much like where this bed is: (however this is a round tent).

I'm thinking to overcome this I would need to
A) Make it ridiculously tall, or
B) put in side wall poles or
C) Maybe I will just have to make the tent wide enough to fit the bed along one side and next to the centre pole?

If I put in side wall poles I could use less rope, but then there is the problem where I have more and more poles to cart around.
If I make it super tall, the canvas will cost more because I'll have to get a metric fuck tone of it! But maybe if I used the side wall poles I would have a smaller "rope" footprint

DESIGN:
The design I want is the oval shape, with two centre poles and a cross beam up the top. this would be the old wood frame. There would be guy lines on the top to span outwards and then on the roof internal channles with ropes that come through the shoulder of the rent that tie to the ground

ROPE.
I love the crows feet seen on all the tents. I found this tent, from HERE. Crows feet can be done a number of ways it would seem, However this tent appears to be in existence late period enough for my persona that I love it, even though it is not geographically from the right location or an oval shape. I do think that my SCA persona, originating from Italy, but currently part of a Scottish household would have travelled through Switzerland and onto France then England and Scotland.

The crows feet on this tent are three to a section and connect to the canvas roof with actual hooks. Buttons and other such methods can be used but I think I prefer these hook, considering.

Here is a picture of Crows feet coming through wall, probably being buttons or toggles or something on the inside

and here are some more pictures of crows feet:

Just thinking.... With the channels through the roof if every alternative channel had two ropes, they could split at the shoulder to join into threes and create the crows feet. followed by a complicated knot:

This white and blue tent doesn't seem to have channels of "roof rope"

WALLS

Walls can be used as tension. I think it looks horrible and if not super even can make a tent look like its collapsing or lopsided or poorly made. From the round white and blue tent above, it is actually set up in a museum and altered slightly, but the walls still seem to hold tension to tie it to the floor. You can see it was meant to peg into the ground by the reinforced leather seen here:

There is an internal structure in this tent because it is set up in a museum. It is not a hub and spoke!

But I really LOVE the look of these Curtain walls:

I know they would be expensive, and it would be a case of, in the future I would buy some more fabric and make more walls.... But I love the idea of making a thicker wall!!! It would not only try to muffle noise better but also attempt to prevent shadowing from the the inside to the outside, if you catch my drift!

COLOUR AND DESIGN
As for colour and design I think I would love a Dark Blue tent. I like the stripes, and If I am going to do an oval shape, I think I like the idea of red channels for rope... or just red stripes.

Here are some more pictures: