A geteld pattern

We’ve recently obtained cheap canvas that’s 2.8m wide.  So there’s a bit of a flurry of tent making activity.

On Monday I (with help) cut out my new rectangular tent, so yesterday a friend came over for my Autocad help designing her new tent.

These were the design constraints we used;

• Geteld shape
• Able to use as a sunshade
• tall enough to stand in
• wide enough to fit a double bed a little way off the ground
• look reasonably medieval in proportion

We used the same source drawing I used when I designed the soldier’s tents for my kids.

And came up with the following options;

The rectangles are an approximation of a double bed, and the vertical one is a “person”.  The distance between the poles is the 2.8m width of canvas, and the poles are 2.1m high.

The last option was fun.  We wanted to base it on a golden triangle, but then decided on a kepler triangle instead.  We decided we like the 3rd option best, so we patterned it on our 2.8m wide canvas and here it is.

My friend has blogged about the construction, including pictures of the finished object.

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