Fritz Wilhelm, LLC – Handcrafted Historical Tents and Campaign Furnitu...

Here’s a bed I finished last year. Just realized I didn’t have any pictures of it up yet.
It is white oak with ash slats. It is intended to be used with an air mattress, so the spacing between slats is fairly large. With a thinner mattress, I’d probably use thin plywood to lay over the slats. I do have mixed feelings about that, but it is...

Here’s a big one; 17′. The owner wanted the stripes to go all the way from the peak to the ground, so I modified my pattern to make that possible. This one will also get a blue floor and a gold ball and tiny flag, a la Field of the Cloth of Gold.
The tent also has an extra heavy center-pole (~3″ square vs. my usual ~2″ square) It’s a heavy pole, and I was a bit apprehensive at first, but it looks just right in that big tent. While it is about twice as heavy as the 2″ pole, it is about 3x as strong...

A quick sketch and some comments on some of the types of seams to be found on tents old or new.
Flat seam – probably only modern, very fast to produce on a double needle machine, esp. a double needle chain-stitcher.
Leaks like a sieve when under tension....

I just finished my first dovetailed clothing chest. It is based on the 15th and 16th century ones I saw in Munich, but is much smaller to make it easier to travel with. It has two tills for keeping small items from getting lost in the bottom. The lids...