I'm a merchant in the SCA, which means that in addition to putting up tables with all my stuff I _also_ have to set up a period-ish canvas tent for it to go under.
I am ... not getting younger. & thus, this is a bunch of work & OW.
So pretty much what I'm doing is building a cross between a tiny house & a travelling merchant booth. Sort of, anyway, in that the booth won't be _in_ the trailer (making that wheelchair-accessible would be ... festive, plus I don't want people shopping in what's basically my house when I'm on the road) BUT the trailer will be the back wall of the booth, & it'll make setting up the rest of it a LOT easier.
The _other_ thing it'll do is make it easier for me to spend more time on the road -- I used to stay out for a couple weeks at a time in just the van, but I carry more stuff now, & well, I don't _fit_. Plus I'm getting to old to live part-time in a room so small I can't stand up straight.
The build is based on things like Romany vardos (which I just found out were based on circus wagons!), & the sheep wagons used in the western US in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Thus they're almost certainly not SCA period, but they fall under 'it's historical & really cool' so people use them anyways.
HA, I was wrong, they ARE period! See here & here.
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I'm a merchant in the SCA, which means that in addition to putting up tables with all my stuff I _also_ have to set up a period-ish canvas tent for it to go under.
I am ... not getting younger. & thus, this is a bunch of work & OW.
So pretty much what I'm doing is building a cross between a tiny house & a travelling merchant booth. Sort of, anyway, in that the booth won't be _in_ the trailer (making that wheelchair-accessible would be ... festive, plus I don't want people shopping in what's basically my house when I'm on the road) BUT the trailer will be the back wall of the booth, & it'll make setting up the rest of it a LOT easier.
The _other_ thing it'll do is make it easier for me to spend more time on the road -- I used to stay out for a couple weeks at a time in just the van, but I carry more stuff now, & well, I don't _fit_. Plus I'm getting to old to live part-time in a room so small I can't stand up straight.
The build is based on things like Romany vardos (which I just found out were based on circus wagons!), & the sheep wagons used in the western US in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Thus they're almost certainly not SCA period, but they fall under 'it's historical & really cool' so people use them anyways.
HA, I was wrong, they ARE period! See here & here.