A large 18'x20' canvas wall tent — outfitter-size — with four big tears, each running about three feet long. The tent had been left standing through winter and the weight of snow caused the canvas to fail along the stress points. Each tear was patched with heavy canvas and reinforced with UV-resistant stitching, ready for another season in the field.
At 18x20, this is outfitter-scale canvas — the kind of tent that goes up at a hunting camp or basecamp for a week or a season, not a weekend. Four 3-foot tears meant working the tent section by section on the bench, finding every spot where the canvas had compromised, and stitching down full-coverage patches with overlap so the repaired areas are stronger than the original. UV-resistant thread on the industrial walking-foot machine so the work holds up to seasons of sun and weather.
A tent this size is heavy and unwieldy to work with — wrestling 18 feet of canvas across the machine takes patience and a big enough table to keep the fabric supported. The tears were also long, meaning each patch had to be sized large enough to fully bridge the damage with solid stitching on healthy canvas around it. And the hard lesson on this one — kept up year-round, the snow load is what did the canvas in. Wall tents shouldn't sit out through winter under load.
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