Nice tents...
For anyone interested in some very nice hand sewn linen tents. Polish company and not exactly cheap, but they have some good manuscript images (and sources and dates for the sources), which people may be interested in. They also appear to have manuscript evidence for a basic pyramidal tent in the Anglo-Saxon era (Utrecht Psalter 816-834 - Psalm 83).
These guys also have some very nice tents and instructions for making them - unfortunately you have to make them yourself and I don't know their linen canvas source.
An article from Regia on making Getelds - side or front opening.
And some more Geteld stuff on a British Viking site - go figure...
And the Oseberg Tent and frame pics. The index will take you back to a very good collection of links on the history of tents. I should get Z to track down the links to the other extant Viking tents.
And just to complete the set/put a bunch of things together, The Medieval Pavilion resources page.
Anyone else got any favourites while I am collecting things together?
And yes I am procrastinating working on actual tents - can you tell?
These guys also have some very nice tents and instructions for making them - unfortunately you have to make them yourself and I don't know their linen canvas source.
An article from Regia on making Getelds - side or front opening.
And some more Geteld stuff on a British Viking site - go figure...
And the Oseberg Tent and frame pics. The index will take you back to a very good collection of links on the history of tents. I should get Z to track down the links to the other extant Viking tents.
And just to complete the set/put a bunch of things together, The Medieval Pavilion resources page.
Anyone else got any favourites while I am collecting things together?
And yes I am procrastinating working on actual tents - can you tell?