[MR] Re: [MedEnc] air bed
rmhowe
MMagnusM at bellsouth.net
Tue Jun 26 18:00:00 PDT 2001
I once posted this to the Medieval Leather list when
it first began. Long before this list.
medieval-leather at Yahoogroups.com - list address updated.
I suppose you could hide a Coleman air mattress in it
and amaze your friends and passers by.
Leather Air Mattresses in Period / Tent Books Info
29 Aug 1999
Since I mentioned this yesterday, someone asked me for more
information as to what is in it. It's an interesting Idea
so I thought I'd share it with a few folks.
Ciba Review 1968/3 Tents (only 48 pages).
Published By CIBA Ltd, Basle, Switzerland. Magazine distributed to
textile schools and companies. ILL it folks, don't try to buy one.
2. Tents and Camping - Article based on text by Dr. H.-C. Wulff,
Kassell, and R. Schwob, Bern. (meaning cities in Switz. I guess.)
12. Nomad tents. 26. Tent Shrines and Palaces 35. Modern Utility
Tents - H. Schramm, Paris. 40 United Kingdom: New CIBA Phenol Resin
Plant; space; Modern Trends 42. Water-repellent and rotproof
finishes for natural cellulose tent fabrics. 43. New CIBA White
Scale for evaluating the whiteness of optically brightened fabrics.
47 Selected Terasil Dyes for texturized polyester.
48. New CIBA products. A lot of this is modern production
information interspersed with history bits.
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Page 5 has a very interesting very large inflatable mattress
illustration. "Inflatable mattresses are not a 20th century
innovation.
Made of skins and fitted with a bellows, this model was depicted
in a 1537 edition of a book on warfare compiled by Flavius Renatus
in the late 4th century AD. Graphic Art Collection, F.K. Mathys,
Basle."
(Looks to be at least 6' by 6' (kingsize) and has two landsknecht
types on it and one in foreground. Seams run from opposite corners
and cross at the middle. Kind of like sewing four squares together
folded at the outsides of the mattress. There is a simple bellows
fitted in the corner of the mattress. Also looks to be a strapped
bottle in the foreground, unable to determine if it is supposed to
be leather too. Basically round with a long neck and strap to
sides.)
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| \ / |
| \ / | Best I can do in text.
| \ / | Plumps up and sides pull in.
| \ / | No stitching on outside.
| \ / | Just on X and bound on bellows.
| \/ |
| /\ | Imagine six feet Square.
| / \ | Four Squares sewed together.
| / \ | Original Kingsize air mattress.
| / \ | Sleeps two. Imagine what you could
| / \ | do with one of these.
| / \ | Wonder if it could be made of
| / \ | canvas and sealed like a currach boat?
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| () | Bellows, I presume you'd seal it with a stopper.
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Says first tent fabrics were of linen impregnated with linseed
oil. I wouldn't smoke in that if I were you. Highly oxidised.
Other tent types covered are Nomadic. Bedouin. Yurts. Teepees and
Wigwams. Lapp tents. Tibetan. Israelite Tabernacle Tents. Persian
depictions of period Yurts. Genghis Khan's tent. Oriental luxury
tents. Palatial Tents of Europe (3 1/2 pages, two pictures) shows
Richard II's tent and the French Royal Tent from Chroniques de
Froissart in color, following page shows the: 26. Pennants bearing
the owner's coat of arms fluttered from the tips of ostentatious
Renaissance tents.
This sheet-metal "flag" and iron- frame top-piece once crowned
the tent belonging to the Vintners Guild in Basle. It bears the
guild's crest and the date, 1661. By courtesy of the History
Museum, Basle. (Shows a large flat topped metal cone with many
rivets around it angularly, and a metal band midway up with four
rings extending from it loosely on smaller rings attached to the
band. At the bottom is a closely spaced bunch of rivets appearing
to hold the top of the tent cloth which can be seen in bits below
the edge. Extending from the top of the flat cone is a metal
spear shaft, widely tapered at the base, which becomes a diamond
pointed blade at the end. From this, just under the blade are two
metal straps, encircling the shaft, and riveted horizontally to
the metal "standard", the sides of the standard appear to have
metal stiffeners, or a fold on each side, which is also rivetted.
No lack of rivets on this thing. The device is a handled bucket
with riveted bands and the date 1661. Height undeterminable.
Picture is B&W, so I can't tell you the colors.)
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Also discussed are Henry VIII's tents at the Field of the Cloth
of Gold and the 400 tents of Francis I. Then it goes to Tent
Banners and Standards and cites:
Beneton de Perrin's "Dissertation sur les tentes ou Pavillons
de Guerre" a rare volume printed in 1743. The rest involves a bit
on Tents in Antartica and the Tropics.
Ciba (Wulff+): '68 3 TENTS..Bedouin..Yurts..tepees..Tibetan;
1968 5b
CIBA REVIEWS 1937-1974.
Personally, I have Hatton and find him to be very good,
after that comes the Shelter I, and Shelter II books,
by Shelter Associates.
Then comes
Tents - Architecture of the Nomads by Torvald Faegre.
This is one that covers yurts and arab tent types.
If you feel rich you might buy Peter Alford Andrews'
Felt Tents and Pavillions. Two volumes, about 1400 pages.
$175. Don't recommmend it for everyone. I've seen his
original thesis as well. The Books are much better.
Joppa Books sells it for $145. I bought them.
Tent Books: Hatton, E.M.: The Tent Book: A Celebration of Tents
from Prehistory to the Future with Buyers Guide for Campers ;
Boston: Houghton, Miflin, 1979, HB or PB.
Nordstrom, Ester Blenda.: Tent Folk of Far North. ; London.
Jenkins. 1930. 255 pp.With 15 illustrations. Includes chapters on
The Lapps, Lake Torne Trask, Reindeer Roundups, Herd Watcher's
Summer Tents, Migration amongst many others.
Master Magnus Malleus, OL, Atlantia, Great Dark Horde
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