[MR] New tent merchant

[thurman]

Greetings Gentles all,

First, if you will, the standard disclaimer. I have no vested interest
in the merchants mentioned here, and patronizing them will result in no
monetary gain to myself. I have searching the net of late for a new
(period) tent. One of the sites I happened to find was Tents by Nizam.
Nizam has been in the tent business in Pakistan since 1869. They have
now teamed up with Reliable Tents of Billings MT,  to market tents on
our shores. I would appreciate it if anyone could offer any personal
experience with the products of either Nizam or Reliable. I have
included a link to Nizam’s site showing their current Medieval
offerings. I am particularly interested in hearing opinions on the tents
labeled “Medieval Type II”, and “Pyramid Tent”. They are somewhat
different than what I have seen before, having to my eye a distinct
middle eastern flavor. The link to Nizam is,
http://www.nizamcanvas.com/med.htm , and Reliable can be found at
http://www.reliabletent.com/ . I emailed Nizam for details and got a
nice mail back from them, plus a personal call from Reliable. They are
very interested in marketing to the SCA, and are currently looking at
establishing themselves at Pennsic. Nizam told me that they are readying
a container for shipment early in the summer, and will include medieval
offerings if the interest is there. If anyone would like any more detail
of my correspondence, just email me and I’ll respond privately.

YIS

Thorfinn