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Well that's more difficult. It's easy enough to patch cotton canvas per se...the difficult bit is reaching the damaged area with a normal domestic sewing machine. I don't suppose you've got access to a long arm industrial sewing machine  by any chance? Our local arts and crafts centre has one for the upholstery students and I'm allowed to go in and use it. General method is to patch inside and out, inner patch first, slightly smaller than the outside one. You can get tent canvas from a number of camping suppliers or if you only need a small amount, sometimes your peg or pole bag will be made out of canvas oddments that match your tent.

If you can't find an industrial sewing machine though, there are many companies that will repair canvas tents and it's not as expensive as you might think. Ask at the local camping shop for local repairers. Incidentally if you think the other corners might go too it's worth reinforcing them with canvas patches on the inside, stuck on with PVA fabric glue like Copydex.

Quote: Originally posted by tonka60 on 22/8/2010

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I think the damage is caused by the metal clips for the bed pods we fasten them onto the side poles and not on top

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Weelllll....I've always clipped up my bed pods onto the top pole and as far as I know so did the previous owner, who was a friend. No damage so far and my TT is 21 years old. However there's definately a right and a wrong way round for the hooks...you have to ensure the little protruding lip at the end of the hook is facing into the cabin, not into the canvas. The right way round actually looks wrong at the moment of hanging btw...it's only when you pull the cabin inner round into place and the hook rotates that the lip ends up in the right place.