The kind of stuff to use for tent making depends a good deal on how
much you can afford for material, and what work you want the tent for.
Thus, if you want a very light tent for carrying on your back or
bicycle, and have plenty of money, a silk tent at 4s. a yard is very
nice; but probably you would like one of cheaper material, and fairly
light and strong.
Lawn, made of Egyptian cotton, calico sheeting, or brown calico makes
a very satisfactory tent at an outlay of 10s. or so for the whole
thing complete.
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SEWING.
After having purchased your stuff, and cut it out according to the
paper pattern, pin it, or tack it, all together, and see how it fits.
Then stitch the seams together, using cotton, not thick thread.
[Illustration: STEEP SIDES TOO WIDE.]
Seams should be double-stitched-that is, the edges of the two pieces
of canvas should overlap, and each be stitched to the other piece. At
all points where a strain is likely to come on the canvas-namely, at
the corners and at places where eyelets for ropes have to come, it is
best to have a strengthening patch of canvas sewn over the other
canvas.
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