Saturday, December 15, 2012

Eye candy: Images of tent appliqué

Well, thinking about getting back to work on my Pavilion has gotten me back to poking about the Internet to see what I can find...

And the second site I looked at has the most wonderful tent walls!

http://lazygalquilting.blogspot.com/2006/06/real-appliqued-tent.html

I don't know how old these are, and I don't really care at this point. Just...oooooh!

And here is the interior of a 17th century Egyptian tent

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/islamicart&CISOPTR=119

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/islamicart&CISOPTR=120&CISOBOX=1&REC=1

Blurry, but how a want a fancy liner!

And the there's this lovely Pinterest board:

http://pinterest.com/jennybowker1/tentmakers-of-cairo/

And another blog with Egyptian tent makers:

http://multicoloredpieces.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-weekend-in-cairo-part-2-tentmakers-of.html

It all rather gets my tent-making energy flowing again!

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