[MR] Question about Tentsmiths and Panther Primitives

[Virginia Di Battista]

*From the Panther Catalog:*

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*THE SEAM ENGINEERING OPTION; IT’S FREE!*

If you like, you can have us “Seam Engineer” your tent. This is also called
“Skeletal Framework Design”, and what it means is that your pole positions
(grommets or loops) are placed at every seam instead of at measured
intervals around the tent’s perimeter. If you request this option, it is no
additional charge.

Certain tents, like rounded or belled ones are made this way automatically
by the very nature of their design, but you have a choice on certain sizes
of tents that are square or rectangular.

*WHICH TENTS CAN BE SEAM ENGINEERED?*

Any square or rectangular tent whose dimensions are divisible by 3 can be
seam engineered. For example, a 9’x12’ marquee can be seam engineered. The
resulting tent would actually measure about 8’3”x11’ (3 panels of canvas
wide x 4 panels of canvas long minus an allowance for seams).

For your convenience, we’ve placed a * on the price chart beside any tent
for which seam engineering is available. Please note that by choosing this
option you will end up with a tent that is smaller than the normal size on
the chart (see below).

*THE BENEFITS OF SEAM ENGINEERING*

All your roof seams will automatically line up with your wall seams, so your
tent has a more symmetrical look.

Also, because your poles are closer together, and because they are all lined
up with your seams you can get a more rigid set up on a large tent such as a
marquee. All of your support poles are about 33” apart from each other on
this style of tent and only full width panels of canvas are used.

*THE DISADVANTAGES OF SEAM ENGINEERING*

Your tent will require more poles for set-up. For example, our standard
18’x24’ marquee takes 20 perimeter poles, but if it is “seam engineered” it
needs 30. More importantly, because each panel of canvas is only about 33”
wide after allowing for seams, the actual size of our 18’x24’ marquee
becomes about 16’6”x22’ (8 panels long x 6 panels wide). Because canvas lots
vary in width, these dimensions will vary.

Here are the approximate dimensions of our marquees after they’ve been seam
engineered.

9’x12’ becomes about 8’3”x11’ 9’x15’ becomes about 8’3”x13’9” 12’x12’
becomes about 11’x11’ 12’x15’ becomes about 11’x13’9” 12’x18’ becomes about
11’x16’6”

15’x15’ becomes about 13’9”x13’9” 15’x18’ becomes about 13’9”x16’6” 15’x21’
becomes about 13’9”x19’3” 18’x18’ becomes about 16’6”x16’6” 18’x24’ becomes
about 16’6”x22’

CALL US to find out how many extra poles, ropes & stakes you’ll need and how
much cost they will add to your set-up package.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>wrote:

> Simona dell'Amore said:
> <<< We're planning for a 14' x 14' center pole Marquee.  Since Tentsmiths
> seam
> engineers all of their seams I would rather go with them.  I know I can get
> a seam engineered tent from Panther, but it would actually cost more to get
> the entire package from them. >>>
>
> What do you mean by "seam engineered"?
>
> For more commentary on different makers of tents, see this file in the
> Florilegium STRUCTURES section:
> tent-sources-msg (80K) 9/24/08 Pavilion and canvas merchants.
> http://www.florilegium.org/**files/DWELLINGS/tent-sources-**msg.html<http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/tent-sources-msg.html>
>
> Stefan
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