Canvas Camping Tents

Canvas or Synthetic/Nylon – what’s the best material for camping tents?

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Tents are typically made from two different types of material: synthetic material (nylon) and cotton canvas. There are different grades and types of these materials, but they basically all boil down to those two materials. Kodiak Canvas camping tents are made with a superior, marine-grade, 100% cotton duck, Hydra-Shield® canvas. What is Hydra-Shield Canvas? It is a custom woven and treated canvas ideal for the purpose of premium tent making. It is double-fill cotton canvas (two threads twisted together to give the canvas superior strength, durability, and a very tight weave). The canvas is then treated with a silicone, dry-finish treatment that is watertight, breathable, and durable. Hydra-Shield canvas also resists mold and mildew.

So, what are the differences between Kodiak Canvas camping tents and camping tents made from synthetic or nylon material? Why should someone choose canvas over nylon, or vice versa? Each fabric has its benefit – for example, if you’re going on a back packing trip, nylon is a much lighter and packable material. However, if you are car camping, or setting up a base camp you can drive in to – a canvas camping tent is your best option. Here's why:

• Breathability. Unlike synthetic fabrics, or canvas with a paraffin or oil-based treatment, our Kodiak canvas is breathable! This allows water vapor to escape, minimizing condensation, humidity, and mugginess. Simply put, you are more comfortable. While no one likes the feeling of a humid or muggy tent, that same condensation can also lead to mold and mildew growing on your gear if you don’t air it out or dry it properly.
• Durability. Kodiak Canvas camping tents are made with a much ‘tougher’ material than your typical synthetic tent materials. There are many stories of canvas camping tents being passed down for generations. With the proper care, a quality canvas camping tent will serve you for many years to come. This same durability helps protect you in the outdoors as well. Whether it’s rain, snow, wind, or even critters, a durable canvas camping tent will outperform its synthetic or nylon tent siblings. Unlike canvas camping tents made with paraffin or oil-based treatments, you should rarely, if ever need to retreat the canvas. Kodiak’s Hydra-Shield silicone-based treatment is durable and long-lasting. Kodiak Canvas camping tents will outlast tents made with inferior synthetic fabrics.
• Water repellency. Speaking of weather and the elements, Kodiak Canvas camping tents shine when it gets nasty outside. Simply put, you will stay dry, even in a downpour! It's okay to touch ceiling and inside walls during a rainstorm. Hydra-Shield canvas does not leak or wick water. While we can’t call our canvas tents ‘waterproof’ (no cotton canvas is ‘technically’ waterproof), they are extremely water repellent, and our expectation is that you will ALWAYS stay high and dry in all weather you encounter. Read some of our customer love letters – our Kodiak Canvas camping tents have been through it all and continually protect our customers from the worst weather imaginable.

What are the different types of canvas camping tents?

The primary types of canvas camping tents are:

Hello everyone, this is first time to post here and please let me know if I don't follow the rules here.
I'm thinking to make a few of custom imprinted camping tent for 1-2 people as store display and looking for someone can make it. So far my research online hasn't be successful yet but I only found someone can provide imprinted fabric for me. Now I need somebody who can replace the existing fabric from tents with the imprinted one. Please help me with finding such people. Thank you in advance.

You need to describe better what kind of imprinting you need.

For example, if you just need one large logo on each side of the rain fly, that is simple, and it can be done with transfers.

If you need a complete pattern of small logos that cover all of the fabric, then that will be difficult.

–B.G.–

You will get efficient and thoughtful service from Spark Glamping.

The company that makes the tent can probably do a small logo on the tent fly, for a fee. I know that The North Face did that for specific Everest parties in the past (e.g., the American Snowbird Expedition in '87). But maybe that was purely a form of advertising, I don't know.

The OP has the imprinted fabric panels.

He is looking for someone to replace the existing panels with the imprinted ones.

Anyone up for a sewing project?

Hi everybody, Thank you for your replies and sorry I wasn't clear enough what I wanted to do.

I want repeated pattern with 2"x 2" logos all over the fabric and I have found someone who can provide the printed fabric.

Now, I need somebody to make tents with it. I need only about 5 of them, not 2,000 so I can't go with some factory in China.

Any further help?

Maybe you should just some cottage manufacturers–I'm assuming you'll pay them a good price to make you some custom tents, so I'm sure there are people out there willing to do that. Do you already have a tent and you just want to replace one panel or section of it or do you want someone to make a tent totally from scratch using the fabric?

I think you'll have more success getting someone to remake, say, a tent fly out of the fabric for you. Would be a good marketing tool.

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