[MR] Re: Authenticity Police?

[Fergus MacDair]

Since we are talking about making tents from tarps, I
came across this link on another list and their prices
are good.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/taf/Category.taf?f=displaysubcats&CategoryID=16&tab=10

Fergus

> From: "Towey, Brian" <cbt4489 at GlaxoWellcome.com>
> Subject: [MR] 

> Well!  I have recently discovered what many of you
> must already know: that
> tarpaulins of enormous size (up to 40 x 60 feet!)
> are now available at
> little cost.  What's more, although they are woven
> polyethylene, they are
> not always an obnoxious blue.
> 
> The large size makes it possible to create a
> pavilion that is, as it were,
> cut from whole cloth. A single huge piece, with only
> a few darts to shape
> it. 
> 
> With careful layout, for example, a 10'x20' oval
> pavilion could be cut from
> a single 25'x25' tarp, with only six seams in the
> whole project, and nary a
> hem.  Total cost, including decoration, well under
> $100, and finished in an
> afternoon.


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