Mary Ostler

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OK… For every success we have, we have to experience disappointments to make our triumphs that much sweeter. The Ouled Nail tent is a disappointment for me. It was an interesting experiment, but in the end it didn’t work out as nice as I had hoped. I think the main problem I have is the size of the tent. [...]

I  had wanted to finish this tent in time for Tir Righ Investiture at the end of August. I am now confident that I will be able to do a test run at SYGC this weekend. This works out better, as I will have a chance to work out some bugs before investiture. I will [...]

I finished the 18ft of  unravelling canvas. What a pain. My Fingers are numb. It will look awesome, but I highly encourage everyone to skip this step and just sew the canvas directly to the wooden hangers.

I need a new tent. I have postponed my building of the Timurid Disked Bell for the time being, and moved on to making a new Bedouin tent. This time I am building one based on the style of tent found in the Northern Algerian regions. In “Tents: Architecture of the Nomads” by Torvald Feagre there is a [...]

I had been playing around with making a bedouin tent, but even I am surprised at just how quickly the idea went from wishful thinking to completed prototype. If not for the sale on canvas painters tarps at a local hardware store, It would not have happened. In less than 4 days I went from [...]

Since I found little to no usable information on Bedouin tents, I have decided to make a post on how I set up my tent.

The tent was debued at SYGC this weekend. I forgot to cut the center poles done to size.  Instead of 6’6″ center, It had  whopping 8′ center poles. Made it look more like a roman wall tent than bedouin, Today I took a moment to cut down the poles, and it made it have a [...]

I finished the Bedouin tent tonight. My hands ache, and I can’t sleep. I am chomping at the bit to try it out. To figure out what I did right, and what I most definitely did wrong. Tomorrow will not come soon enough!

Not much done today on the tent front. I had an adorable 3yr old hindering… er ….. helping me. Everything took at least four times longer than it should have. Top view of the roof.  Thats a long wide piece of canvas, which is why….

So for some reason that I am not quite sure of… I have decided I need a Bedouin tent.  Well, after countless enjoyable (yet wasted) hours surfing for information on Bedouin tents, I have got this much information on them. 1. They are rectangular 2. They are usually black. 3. They are made of goat [...]