DIY Canvas Plash-Palatka Poncho-Tarp, 3rd-part cutting, stitching, encounter with a Neanderthal men

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right, here we go, that's what you may been waiting for, in this 3rd clip of making a DIY Canvas Plash-Palatka Poncho-tarp, I'm finally cutting of the canvas in to size and stitching it up to get a large square piece made up on a household sewing machine for a start.

Nevertheless meanwhile as a sort of inspiration to the tarp-tent idea there is some artwork around in my home town that actually proves that the Neanderthal men must have used this sort of homely setup over thousands of years, enjoying a nomadic lifestyle before they been forced to live in permanently stone buildings as a sort of modern day comfort cave, so the tarp-tent, and small poncho design is not a new age invention but rather one of the oldest and most common homestead of mankind for a very long time..

The material I useing came from: Tschum canvas Bushcraft tents and stove... the maker of the famous and unique “Tschum 2P SOSWA Bushcraft tent”
Many Thanks to Florian.
https://tschum.de

Since this video attracted quite some attention over the last year, specially regarding the pattern of the Palatka, I would like to share a link to the original Soviet field manual published in 1942
contains 34 pages about the Plash-Palatka cloak tent, Page-by-page: https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01005261770?page=1&rotate=0&theme=white which showing the cloak in great details.
Another good source for the pattern can be found here: https://forum.ww2.ru/index.php?showtopic=6583 if you are only after the pattern drawings to make your own DIY Plash-Palatka.

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