Hi there, and welcome to tipi.co.uk.

It all started years ago, when a friend came back from Spain having spent some time in tipis in Andalucia. A friend he met out there offered to make him one if he bought the canvas, and so he had a tipi sewn up, the princely sum of a bottle of vodka changed hands for his labour!!

We took it to several festivals both in England and France, after a summer of practically living in it, I decided I had to make myself one.

Several years passed, each time I spent in my friends tipi I kept promising to make myself one, and then the day came, armed with a computer, internet connection and a credit card (a highly dangerous combination!) I ended up with a roll of canvas and a book - ‘The Indian Tipi, It’s History, Construction, And Use.’ By Reginald & Gladys Laubin. Which I can recommend to anyone interested in tipis. (Please see the links page for further details.)

A quick trip to Argos saw me home with a sewing machine, and I was ready for action.

Several weeks worth of evenings spent wrestling with canvas and plans (and my friends tipi cover, borrowed for reference) saw my tipi finished.

The moment of truth was to come a few weeks later when we went to the Larmer Tree Festival.