Lacing The Big Top Canvas
Posted By thecircusblog on May 21, 2010
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus early to mid 1960’s. Lacing up the canvas is not as easy as one would think as the gramet holes and lacing rope loops have to match up or you will have to start all over again. Notice the man at the first center pole, who is tying off all of the laced sections to the bail ring. A heavy rope pully block is attached to it and at the top of the center pole. When the tail end of the rope is pulled the tent rises, this is called pulling the peaks. All this tent canvas you see here is in sections. Between each center pole the canvas is laced left and right of the pole as well. This man is lacing the end of the tent.This circus tent has 12 sections, It looks like it has 50 foot middles by 120 wide with 90 foot round ends, which is where this man is working.
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