I have quite a few pictures of medieval tie-downs for tents (they often didn't bother to draw these details but sometimes we are lucky and they added them).
Unfortunately, I can't upload them right now, another deadline (as usual)... always deadlines during the workday. Global commerce is a hungry bear that always needs feeding.
Maybe I can grab just a couple, but it's not likely to be the best, but it might get the idea across about the "tracery" on the edges of the VMS drawing... This is from BL Add 12531 and it's probably not that accurate (it seems not completely structural), the second one is better, notice the three sections gathered into one (BL Royal 2A XVI):
One thing I noticed in eastern tents was they sometimes used a butterfly knot (descriptive term, not a technical term), where two pieces come together in a knot about 25% way from the tend and then split out again, creating an X shape.
Unfortunately, I can't upload them right now, another deadline (as usual)... always deadlines during the workday. Global commerce is a hungry bear that always needs feeding.
Maybe I can grab just a couple, but it's not likely to be the best, but it might get the idea across about the "tracery" on the edges of the VMS drawing... This is from BL Add 12531 and it's probably not that accurate (it seems not completely structural), the second one is better, notice the three sections gathered into one (BL Royal 2A XVI):
One thing I noticed in eastern tents was they sometimes used a butterfly knot (descriptive term, not a technical term), where two pieces come together in a knot about 25% way from the tend and then split out again, creating an X shape.