Posted by Peter Ceresole on August 13, 2003 at 19:09:11 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: tents - a plausible design? posted by Katharine Edgar on August 13, 2003 at 16:30:02:
I think the key is that they had pockets at the edges to hold the stones. Without pockets it all sounds terribly dodgy- the cloth can be pulled out from under. But pockets fixes the stones, at least with respect to the canvas, and makes it all possible.
But not great, as AR describes well.