The first tent I ever made.  A 10’x26’ rectangle with 5.5’ walls that cost around $80. The canvas was obtained at auction, and  is extremely fire and rot resistant. I have put out a small fire by dropping some of this canvas on it. While this was a nice and roomy tent it did require a lot of poles and spare space around it for ropes, which lead me to make the next tent. 

Not shown is another 10x16 tent in red and white stripes, that I made for a friend.  It simply looks like a shortened version of the above yellow and white.

The 30’x40’ oval or 30’ round. I did not sew this one, but instead purchased a 30x70’ canopy top, at auction for $150.  I then cut down the two 15’ mid sections and made walls out of them. 

The tent is in the midst of being set up in the above picture, which is why it is drooping slightly.

Alas after the polearm incident, it became apparent that it was time to retire the tent. The poles, stakes and sides are still in use on the 30x30 square that replaced it, which my clan bought at the same auction for only $350.

They held another canvas auction and this time the best deal was pink and white canvas for roughly $15 a bag, with each bag holding a 10x20 piece of striped canvas.  Not my prefered color scheme, but I liked the price.  The above 14’x14’ tent ran me around $120, with half of that for the 2’ long tent 1/4” iron tent stakes.

The Pennsic camp needed a shower, so I took some of the remaining pink and white canvas and threw together the above 7’x7’tent in four evenings. I love industrial sewing machines.

I have taken on another Journeyman, and needed a tent for her to live in at Pennsic. So I threw together the above 12’x12’ white tent with green edging from spare canvas. This did sacrifice the canvas used for the walls of the front section of the yellow and white in the top photo though.

OK, it has been a while since I last made a tent, and with Gisella and Symon’s wedding coming up I wanted to upgrade their tent to at least a 14x14. The answer:  make myself a new tent and hand down my old 14x14 to them. 

The new tent is a 15x23’ pavillino with 7’ high slant walls and a 13.5’ peak.  It is tight, barely wiggles in the wind and so far appears to be completely  waterproof. I have now officially used up all of the pink and white canvas.

See the below shot for the composite view of the interior support structure of the new tent.