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Lots of lovely green canvas

We headed up to an MOD tender sale recently and purchased 6 lots of equipment. Amongst the lots were 4 crates of top quality heavy duty canvas tents and shelters. These are earmarked for making dining/cooking shelters. We will be making wooden frames for them to give them a nice rustic feel and recycle them into a new life in events. The colour of the canvas ideally blends with the UK’s countryside.

Eventually we hope to recycle some into yurt and geo-dome canvas covers.

Trousers made from recycled British army tents

Over The Moon Tents, and many of our clients, love the smell and feel of traditional canvas. Now you can combine that love of canvas with fashion and recycling and grab yourself a pair of trousers made of army tent canvas. Genius.

Canvas Army Tent Trousers

http://www.stabo.co.uk/Shop/mens/trouser.htm

A long family association with military tents

We recently came across some old pictures of my two grandad’s and my great grandfather with military tents in the background.

The one above is my great grandfather, George, who was a horseman in the army we think around the time of the first world war (my father is in the process of researching the army’s records). This picture was of great interest to us as it shows my great grandad, George, second from left next to a classic canvas Bell Tent.

Both father and I are familiar with Bell Tents from our scouting days, they made for great patrol tents sleeping 6 comfortably. I always like the way you rolled the sides up to air them and they looked like they were hovering above the ground. I am not surprised that these same tents are now making a comeback at festivals. I spotted quite a few this summer. They are much more suited as you can stand up and get dressed in them and air them easily. Plus canvas is a much more resilient material and can handle the poorer weather better than these cheap throw away tents made of plastics. Plus a Bell tent has one pole and a few rope lines, how simple to put up!

The pictures below are my two grandads, Roland and William