Reproduction Roman leather military tents?

[Florentius]

Avete,
I have begun construction of a canvas contuburnium, based on the vindolanda tent. I am using a polycotton canvas, topcoated with paint, uv, and fire protection. Fire retardancy is required in california for any sleeping tent. I am using two different colors, in no particular pattern, and will overpaint the whole thing to dull it down and make it look more like leather. All the panels are cut to size, and are being assembled with a simple seam. It is machine sewn, and each seam is sewn once, with one side longer than the other. The overlap is then glued down. This is the only way I can imagine to assemble it without a ton of machine sewing on the outside, plus, there should be no visible sewing anyway. I have made number of pavilions, but always I used a full flat fell seam. This is one half of that seam, but I believe that there will be comparatively little stress on most the seams of this tent, so the system will work. I think this will be a workable method of building a non leather tent that looks like the real thing. Of course this is not an option for the stitch Nazi, but I'd rather have a tent that at least looks right, than have nothing at all.
I will post some pics soon, showing the seam method and fabric. Naturally this will become the next page of florentius.com

Vale, Florentius