Tents and Tentmaking

Living in period style

SCA | Tents and Tentmaking
Toward a (More) Period Encampment, an article on the Dragonwing website, discusses how striving for a more period encampment can be a rewarding experience.

Build yourself a yurt

Chinese | Mongolian | Tents and Tentmaking
Raoul, St. Florian de la Riviere, of the Kingdom of Lochac, has posted instruction on how to build a yurt or gher.

Wolf Company sunshade disapears from Pennsic battle field

Martial Activities | Tents and Tentmaking | Pennsic War
This article is a plea to the populace of the Known World to please help Wolf Company locate their battle field sunshade.

Raj Tents offers exotic ambience

Asian Indian | Tents and Tentmaking
Want a more exotic tent experience? Want to make a statement with your dining fly? Check out Raj Tents, a company which understands the romance of the tent.

Custom Pavilion Pattern Generator

Tents and Tentmaking
Planning to sew your own pavilion? On his website, Dr. Stephen Bloch has posted a pavilion pattern generator that allows users to customize construction of a period tent.

Amazing medieval tent

1601 CE and Later | Middle Eastern | Photo Album | Tents and Tentmaking
Members of House Greydragon share images taken at the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt, Germany in 2003 including an amazing medieval tent and armor.

Yurts invade Canada

New World | Photo Album | Russian | Tents and Tentmaking
The Muhlberger's Early History website has a story about how yurts are now being manufactured and sold throughout Canada as cheap housing. (Photo)

Market umbrella pavilion

Tents and Tentmaking
The designers at Dragonwing have created a website entitled Adventures in Tent Design: How I Turned a Market Umbrella into a Medieval Arming Tent which chronicles the steps needed to create a small arming pavilion. (photos)

Raj Tents

Asian Indian | Merchants | Metalworking | Middle Eastern | Tents and Tentmaking
Based in India, Raj Tents manufactures elaborately-decorated pergolas, pavilions, tents, and other shelters in sizes up to 34x40 feet (10.3x12.2 meters). They offer rectangular and octagonal shelters of canvas, as well as cloth liners that can be used to dress up modern vinyl tents. The company also offers a selection of furnishings, accessories, and lighting fixtures in an Indian or Middle Eastern style.

Living in the Mongolian Lap of Luxury

Modern Society | Mongolian | Tents and Tentmaking
Interested in a nomadic existence - but with all the comforts of home? Consider visiting the Colorado Yurt Company where you can own a yurt complete with refrigerator, range and deck.

Mongolia Tourist Site Treasure Trove of Information

Cooking | Costuming | Mongolian | Tents and Tentmaking
The Mongolian Department of Tourism offers a wealth of information about the people, culture and history of their country on the department's official website.

Props Needed for History Channel Program

601 CE and Earlier | Armouring and Weaponsmithing | Media | Middle Eastern | Tents and Tentmaking
Andy Oakland, a props master for the History Channel, is looking for some Bronze Age props in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

The Badger's Den

Merchants | Tents and Tentmaking
Purveyor of tents by Panther Pavilions as well as clothing, boots, feastware, scribal supplies, children's toys, sheepskin rugs & pillows, lanterns and oil lamps, badger balms, rattan, rubber axe heads, sword hardware, and and more.

Panther Primitives

Merchants | Tents and Tentmaking
Panther Primitives has tents and other canvas structures from numerous cultures and historical periods, including the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Native American, Viking, Roman, and the American Civil and Revolutionary Wars.
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