I like the idea of making my own low-tech gear for camping. Mainly, I'm talking about clothing and shelter. Boots, warm clothes, and a tent, made by hand out of natural materials.Does anyone have information on camping gear of the past and how it was made?
>>2798158Are you going to use a sewing machine?
>>2798159yeah probably
I'm guessing that if you made a vest or lined a winter coat with this stuff it would be probably be very warm. I always wanted to try it.
We had some old wax canvas tents when I was kid. If you fold them up wet, they get moldy, that's what happened to all of ours eventually. They're very heavy, that's another problem with them. That tent in the picrel probably weighs about 25 pounds with the poles and pegs. The best thing you could do is probably try to get your hands on one. Then you can examine it, and se how it's made. How they fold the seams, how many times they stitch the seams for strength, stitch spacing, that sort of thing.
>>2798158>information on camping gear of the past and how it was made?How far back are we talking? Military or civilian?Peak tradgear was the 1920s, Germany. At the time, (good) shelters were made from "parachute silk", which is long-fibre cotton. That stuff has a weight comparable to modern synthetics, and sufficient strength to withstand a storm. Downside is that it's expensive to make (as you have to separate the fibres by lenght and end up with the majority of your cotton harvest in the trash), and afaik, nobody makes it anymore. That stuff is heavily waterresistant on its own, but if you need it to be completely waterproof, you'd use a polymerizing oil (linseed, normally) with lots of thinner (turpentine, for ex) to coat it. The oil hardens within the fibres and makes them hydrophobic while barely adding o the weight.>bootsLeather boots, heavily waxed, with double socks instead of padding in the boots.>warm clotheswool (winter) and linen (summer) for your base layers, wool felt (loden) or oilskin (cotton w/ linseed oil) for sell layers. Those, you can still get from traditional hunting stores, but quality is a bit lower because of mechanical processing of the wool and cotton, so they normally either have some synthetics added in, or are a bit heavier.>backpack (yeah, I know you didn't ask)wooden frames, cotton bags, and a fur flap to keep out most of the rain>sleepingsheep fur on the ground, wool blanket on top of you, and keep a fire going if it's really cold.>>2798163>That tent in the picrel probably weighs about 25 pounds with the poles and pegsDoubt it. I have two tents like that (one homemade for larp, one German milsurp) and they're both below 10kg / 20pounds. And that's already with modern trash cotton. My grandfathers tent (made in the 1930s) was closer to 5 kg.
>>2798171LMFAO AHAHAHAHAHAHAH what a load of horseshite. Never trust a germhog, even on the most elementary information kek. >One homemade for LARPThat explains your post.
>>2798178>shitting on larp>he will never fuck a cutie pretending to be a catgirl assassin
>>2798158>Does anyone have information on camping gear of the past and how it was made?How far back "in the past" are we talking? Just enough that you want to make your own stuff without using modern performance fabrics, or trad larp wool-only back in the past?On a semi related note, consider making a fishnet undershirt. There's only a handful of companies still making them, so DIY is actually a reasonable way to go and they are surprisingly performant. You'll look like a pervert whenever you take your over off, but in the weather that justifies wearing the fishnet as an under, that shouldn't happen anyways other than in your tent.
>>2798192>FishnetWe call them string vests around here, chief. They look great on our sculpted atheltic eurostallion bodies.
>>2798202They look the same as the stuff the perverts outside of some clubs wear, so fishnet is what I'm calling them.
>>2798160That will be best because on a tent at least, you want the seams nice and straight and true. Canvas will be very hard on the machine unless you have a heavy-duty or industrial one.
>>2798158You can take a silicone caulk, thin it with some gasoline and slather it onto fabric, if the mix has a thickness of at least runny ketchup and fabric is decently tight-woven, it will be watertight without much discoloration from caulk.I done some testing on a thin landscaping fabric and it holds water all night, will probably try sewing a shitty tent out of it soon.
