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        My old vango icarus did not have mesh on the front door,so I bought some mesh and attached velco to the side of the tent and one on the mesh.I used very long strip's of velcro to keep it attached and it worked fine.When I came to sell my tent I removed the mesh and velcro and the velcro had done no damage at all to the tent fabric,it was the sticky back type bought off ebay.

Quote: Originally posted by Shellipoos on 09/5/2013

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 Jean, did you use any specific type of needle or thread to go through the your heavy canvas?. 

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I used a needle for 'jeans', Gutermann strong thread and my old Singer treadle sewing machine.

For a polyester tent, you could possibly use a finer needle. If you want to be able to remove the cover in hot weather (hopefully!), make sure that you put the loop part onto the tent, otherwise if you forget to replace the cover before you pack the tent away, the hook part of the velcro would snag the tent fabric when it's rolled up.