After several days of using the Google product search and mixing and matching search terms in every way I could think of, I finally have found exactly what I've wanted. At mytarp.com I can buy canvas tarp fabric off the bolt for $5/yard! I can't tell you how many crappy online stores I've been to that are nigh unnavigable, and the shipping costs are left a complete mystery. For a while I was looking at buying already-made tarps in various sizes and piecing them together to make my tent, but I didn't want to have to deal with the grommets and the super thick seams and hems. Just imagining how many needles I would break sent shudders all over my body.
So I've purchased the tarp for my tent, even though actual construction is quite a while away still. Also: it's green.
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ReplyDeleteGreen? Is that period?
It's more period than waterproofed cotton. Speculatively, the tents were made with sails, and the sails were made from wool, and wool could be dyed any color. I'm not sure why it's believed that the sails were wool instead of linen, probably because wool was more available in the Scandinavian region, and it was more important to make clothing from linen because of how it would be washed and because of comfort. I have seen documents that say that cotton could have been used to make the sails, but I find that unlikely because cotton had to be imported, and it wasn't used to make fabric in Europe until, from what I know, the 1500s.
ReplyDeleteLong story short: The color is period, the fabric itself is more functional than period.
(ha! You were probably being facetious anyway.)