Posts: 4 Location: Tübingen, Germany
Sat 09 Jan, 2010 8:13 am
Dear all,
first I would like to thank you for this wonderful collection of pavises and information. This thread has been highly educational to me! I'm currently building my own pavise, with the aim of being quite close to historical accuracy. The wooden corpus is already finished (see attached image), and now I'm looking into the issue of covering it with canvas.
In my search for information I haven't yet found a detailed account of the covering technique. Is it supposed to be just a single layer of linen canvas, or more? Also, I'm wondering if a single sheet of canvas was used or multiple adjoining strips. I guess at least the "beak" must be covered separately to avoid wrinkles in the surface.
The process of covering is also unclear to me. Is it neccessary to tightly stretch the fabric over the surface (for stability), or would it suffice to loosely cover it? In the former case, I would need to somehow fix the canvas to the wood, maybe with small nails, to keep it tightly strung while gluing. It would be interesting to see if historical evidence supports either technique.
It would be great if some of you who built a replica pavise could share your experiences. I'll also make a web page documenting the building process and post the link here later.
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