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Couls swear someone on here was going to fabricate a traditional tent of linen canvas, but when I search for "linen tent" I get so many hits that I could well grow old and die before reading them all.
So if you were the one who was planning to try this with linen -- or hemp, for that matter -- fess up and share, please.
 
I have yet to have any rot. But I live on the edge of
High Desert so putting it away bone dry is the norm rather then the exception.

I also don't use it as a ground cloth, and I am vary careful about things like letting a branch rub back and forth against it, as it is thin. I think it will fail at rub points first.

I had it out down in TX last February during my hog hunt, It got lots of use, as it rained :hmm: 5 out of 7 days, and was still going strong.

That would have been maybe it's 10th or 12th outing.

Not bad for a sheet I picked up at Salvation Army for like $8 + $8 in oil and a little sewing on my part to add tabs. It was a high thread count (600-800 I can't remember) Egyptian cotton

 
Sean Gadhar said:
It was a high thread count (600-800 I can't remember) Egyptian cotton
:confused: Well that tosses that out of the conversation.
"Linen" is a fabric made from Flax.
It's common to call bedding sheets linen's,, but cotton is cotton and linen is flax.
 
:doh: Yep You are right I was thinking in the general use rather then the actual meaning.

Now everyone go tell the wife to get everything not made of Flax out of the linen closet & see what's left in there. :rotf:
 
Cotton has replaces flax 99.9%

Just try to find me an actual linen tarp for sale.

A bed sheet?

A Tablecloth?

Underwear? :shocked2:

Anything other than an obscure dusty old bolt of 3 foot fabric at Joanne's?

It's possible but not that easy. or cheap.

I think your DIY cotton bed sheet tarp is just fine.....Especially as a prototype and proof of concept.
 
:wink:
I've seen folks try cotton bed sheets for tents before, they don't last long here in Minnesota,, too wet, too much condensation. Kinda like submarine races with the windows rolled up.
 

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