OLD ENTRANCE - TEEPEES FOR SALE
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Please send e-mail inquiry for price quotation: oldentrance@yahoo.com
New teepees 15', 17.5', 20' & 10' Child's Play Teepee $375 ready for immediate shipment via Greyhound or UPS.
One used 17.5' teepee w/door and liner $750 and one used 15' teepee w/door $500 CAD o.b.o.
| TEEPEE SPECIFICATIONS:
We provide competitively priced, high quality teepees of superior workmanship made-to-order using authentic Plains Indian pattern. Our teepees are made in Alberta ranging from 10' size, increasing in 2.5' increments to 22.5' in size. Three popular sizes are: 15' Teepee is a small size shelter suitable for sleeping two adults without an inside open fire. This size of teepee, or slightly smaller, was traditionally used by nomadic Plains Indians, before light weight canvas and horses became available for helping to move camp. 17.5' Teepee has ample space for storage of camp gear and to sleep two adults comfortably with a small inside open fire or four adults with no center fire. 20' Teepee provides a large camp shelter with space to sleep six adults or eight children without an open inside center fire or four adults with an inside fire. Please e-mail for a firm price quotation. Each teepee order will be individually quoted, determined by the size of teepee and options specified. Prices are Canadian dollars, plus 5% GST. Delivery for custom made teepees is two to three weeks from date of order. Shipping costs are extra, collect via Greyhound within Canada or by UPS to the US. A non-refundable deposit of $100 CAD, payable by either Visa or MasterCard, is required when a teepee order is placed. Product satisfaction guaranteed. Materials: Canvas: Our teepees are made with 10.10 oz. 100% cotton FR Army Duck, waterproofed, mildew resistant and flame-retardant. Factory treated canvas is recommended and is essential for teepees used at humid locations. Flame-retardant fabric is not fireproof. The fabric will burn if left in continuous contact with a flame source. When not in use all canvas must be completely dry prior to wrapping up for storage to prevent mildew discoloring and fabric deterioration. Hanging the teepee inside a garage or similar building for a few days will ensure that the canvas is completely dry prior to storage. Thread: Canvas teepees are machine sewn with heavy duty cotton Size 92 polyester or nylon core thread using an industrial walking-foot sewing machine that makes very evenly spaced stitches. Smoke Flaps: Double stitched to teepee with reinforced three-cornered canvas pockets for the smoke flap poles. Buttonholes: Double rows of machine stitched buttonholes for the lacing pins. Bottom Tie-Down Loops: High strength webbing tie-down loops are rolled and double stitched into the bottom hem of the teepee. Teepee Liner: 3' or 5' high liner 10.10 oz. or 7 1/2 oz. canvas with 12" wide bottom sod cloth of rot-resistant reinforced polyester fabric. High strength webbing loops are rolled and double stitched into the bottom hem of the liner and evenly spaced ties are stitched into the top hem for attachment to a nylon cord tied at 5' height on inside of teepee poles. The liner cuts down on drafts inside of the teepee at floor level and is hightly recommended for comfort. A natural upward draft is created between the teepee cover (that does not touch the ground) and this liner (that does touch the ground) to ventilate the teepee and clear smoke from an open inside fire up through the teepee top opening. Inside liners for larger sized teepees are fabricated in two sections for ease of installation and joined at the back center with loops for a willow or sapling. Optional Lacing pins: Set of 12 lacing pins, easlily made from willow about size of a pencil, hand whittled and peeled; 3/8" diameter X 10" long. Optional Pegs: Set of 13 J-hook steel tent pegs; 1/4" diameter x 12" long. Optional stove pipe opening: 6" diameter high-temperature fabric stove pipe hole sewn into teepee cover for use with metal stove. Photos below illustrate high quality construction details of Old Entrance Teepees. Product satisfaction guaranteed on delivery or money refunded. |
Smoke Flap Reinforcing & Lacing Pin Holes
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| PLAINS INDIAN TEEPEE STYLE:
The spelling of the word teepee varies throughout North America, you may see Teepee, Tipi or Tepee used. In Canada teepee is most commonly used variation. The Plains Indian (Sioux) Teepee pattern is cut in the shape of a half circle with two smoke flaps attached near the centre. When a teepee is erected it forms a cone shape with straight overlapping edges held together with lacing pins below the extended smoke flaps at the front of the teepee. A double row of stitch reinforced buttonholes run up the double canvas overlapped strip for the lacing pins. The row of buttonholes on the inside strip will be slightly closer together than those in the outside strip. The door opening is cut out in an oval shape half out of each edge strip so that when the edges are brought together a complete oval door opening is formed. The door provided with teepee cover is made of rectangular shaped canvas turned in on eddges and hemmed. Two willows of 3/4" dimeter are inserted throught the top and bottom hems. Additional two willows of 1/2" diameter are placed into intermediate pockets or ties to stiffen the door cover. A webbing loop is double stitched into the top of door cover at centre point for attachment to a lacing pin above door opening and provides the door hinge. Three cornered canvas pockets are sewn to the tips of the smoke flaps for the smoke flap poles. Reinforcing pieces of canvas are sewn to points where extra strain is expected, on the smoke flaps. Teepee "size" is the radius dimension of the teepee pattern. The centre point of the pattern that we use is measured from a point in line with the bottom corner of the tapered smoke flaps, a slight variation from the diagram shown below. This pattern makes best use of the 5'wide canvas. The floor shape in a properly set up teepee is slightly oval. The distance measured from the front door pole to back lifting pole will be slightly less than teepee pattern radius measurement and the side to side measurement slightly less than front to back. Note: The radius of a teepee pattern is not the floor diameter.
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Erecting the Teepee: A minimum of fifteen poles are required for teepees 17.5' and 20' teepees, each pole 3 to 5 feet longer than the teepee radius size. A 15' teepee requires a total of 13 poles. Slender poles make a neater framework. Twelve poles (or ten for a 15' teepee) are tied into the teepee framework and one pole is used as the teepee cover lift pole. Two stiff, straight lightweight poles are inserted into the smoke flap corner pockets outside of the teepee to hold the smoke flaps. Three of the sturdiest poles are selected for the tripod and are tied together at the right height and then lifted. The remaining poles are then placed against the tripod, to form the cone-shaped frame, that is tilted slightly backwards. All the poles are then lashed together with several wraps of the long tie rope, pulled snug from various points below, then tied off to one of the poles or to a solid ground stake at the base of a pole on the windward side. The last pole to be placed is the teepee lift pole with the teepee cover tied to it at the right height with the tie straps attached at the top pole flap. This pole is generally placed on side of the prevailing wind, directly opposite of where the door is to be located. The teepee cover is then pulled around the pole framework and fastened together at the overlap with 10" long willow lacing pins tapered at one end. The bottom is pegged down with 12" long stakes and the poles inside are spread out to stretch the cover evenly. The smoke flap poles can be moved about to change the position of the smoke flaps so the smoke from an inside fire is drawn from inside the tepee. Air comes in at the base of the teepee behind the teepee liner and is drawn out at the smoke hole. The smoke flaps provide a chimney effect creating an upwards draft. The tripod is the most important step in setting up the teepee correctly. With experience it is much easier to judge the close setting of the tripod. Setting the teepee tripod is largely a matter of trial and error and selecting a level site to set the teepee will simplify the pole set-up. A teepee is a tilted cone, slightly steeper up the back side than the front. To determine the height to tie the tripod poles, either lay the poles on the outspread teepee cover or measure the length of the canvas cover from the very top of the V-shaped tie flap straight down the back to the bottom edge and add an additional 12" for the height at which to tie the two back poles of the tripod. When the teepee cover is tied onto the lift pole, the rope tie will be slightly above the top of tie flap and the bottom of the teepee cover will clear ground by about 6". The door tripod pole needs to be slightly longer than the back two tripod poles, about 6", for the teepee to tilt slightly to the back. Note: If the tripod is not tied at a high enough point, there will be to much slack in the canvas near the bottom, resulting in door hole being too wide. When properly set up the door opening will be 16" to 18" wide. Mark or notch each tripod pole at the correct length. Tie the two back poles with a clove hitch, then make one wrap around all three tripod poles and finish with two half hitches around the three poles. A fencing staple can be used to hold the rope at the correct height on each pole and keep it from slipping on the poles. The rope hitch will tighten when the tripod is lifted so the rope must be free to move through the staples, not nailed tight. It's better to begin with the tripod poles a bit long as the bottom of the poles can be trimmed off to lower the frame, but there is no way to lenghten the poles except to lay the tripod down and start over. The first pole after the tripod is set should be placed about 3' to the right of the door pole. The remaining poles are leaned against the tripod evenly spaced around the teepee, leaving one gap opposite the door for the lift pole. Four poles are placed between the door pole and right tripod pole in the same crotch of the tripod, then three poles in one crotch between the left tripod pole and door pole, the last three poles (including the teepee lift pole) are placed between the two back tripod poles. Thirteen poles are required for teepees up to 20' in size, placed generally as shown in the pole placement diagram below, plus the two poles for the smoke flaps. The top tips of the poles should form a neat crown. The closer fitting the poles are together are at the tie point the better, so slender poles are best. Walk around the teepee poles several times with long rope rope end, flipping the rope up to the hitch level and pulling up the slack as you go to bring the poles as tight together as possible at the criss-cross point. After the teepee cover is in place, the poles (except for the tripod) can be moved outwards to tighten the canvas fabric. With a proper tilted cone the teepee floor should be an oval shape. The ground measurement from back to front will be about 1' less than the teepee pattern radius and the side to side measurement slightly narrower. Also after a teepee has been up for a few days especially after a rain the fabric will tighten up and wrinkles will disappear. Teepee Poles: Poles are not included with teepee purchase but can be provided separately, please e-mail for price quotation. A total of 15 teepee poles are required for teepees 17.5' and 20' in size, each pole 3 to 5 feet longer than the teepee size, 13 poles are sufficient for the 15' teepee and 9 poles for the 10' childs play teepee. Locally we use Black Spruce as these poles are strong and rigid. If cut from live trees and peeled, any poles must be dried for several weeks prior to use. The top pole tips are left long for a natural look, not all trimmed to the same length. A set of poles when stored dry or left standing will be good for many years of use. Pine poles are generally straighter and lighter weight than spruce so more may be required to support the teepee canvas or the poles may bend and sag over time. Floor: Tarpaulin or indoor/outdoor turf carpet can be placed as a ground sheet within the teepee. The sod cloth along the bottom edge of the teepee liner forms an effective barrier to the outside weather and the ground sheet can be placed up to or on top of the sod cloth. If a small open fire is to be burned inside of the teepee the ground sheet must be laid to give adequate clearance of the centre fire pit. Wood Floor: A full or partial wood floor can be installed. Our teepees in use at Old Entrance have one piece wood floor decks constructed of 1" thick planks screwed to heavy poles leveled on the ground. More readily movable wood floors can be built in pallet-sized pie-shaped sections, then placed around the outer perimeter of a teepee with the option in a larger teepee of leaving open ground space at centre for a small, open fire. We do not provide wood floors. Inside Fire: A small pit is dug at the centre of the teepee and lined with rocks. An 4" air supply pipe can be laid into the ground running from the outside of the teepee to the centre fire pit to provide direct combustion air and decrease smoke inside the teepee. (At Old Entrance we use metal stoves as they are cleaner than an open fire inside.) The book "The Indian Tipi" by R. & G. Laubin may be found at a library for additional reference. For nightly teepee accommodations at Old Entrance please check "Accommodations" page.
Last update: October, 2008 |
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Send e-mail inquiry: oldentrance@yahoo.com Old Entrance Cabins & Teepees(867822 Alberta Ltd.)P.O. Box 6054 Hinton, Alberta T7V 1X4
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