Welcome to the Guild Of Tentmasters, a multi-disciplinary association for all individuals who are interested and involved in tensioned membrane construction.

The Guild is open to all disciplines; design, manufacture, sales. rental, installation and maintenance of fabric roofed constructions are typical areas of endeavour.

The Guild aims to bring members together in a professional way to raise standards and disseminate knowledge. Training is an important part of the guild ethos. We wish the profession of Tentmaster to be recognised as a serious and important part of the construction and events industries. The Guild has training courses in place for those on the first step of the ladder to Tentmastership. We also provide the formal title of Tentmaster to those who recognisably are proficient in their craft.

Membership is on an individual basis only but the guild recognises the importance of commercial links and interests as clients, employers, partners and suppliers, so associate trade membership of the guild is encouraged.

The next stage of guild endeavour could lay the groundwork for a future in which we develop apps, info libraries or services to get things done on our projects. Working with suppliers and manufacturers we will build an interface to place the knowledge of technical fabrics and the processes of converting materials into structures in the hand and online.

The Tentmasters Guild was formed in 1992 to formalise the standing of the time honoured profession of Tentmaster. Individual membership is free. Contact us for Corporate associate membership.

In an increasingly complex and ‘high tech’ world, the Tentmaster performs a task carried out since the dawn of history. With the advent of new regulations, working practices, and types of equipment, there is a real need for a cohesive approach to the acquisition of new knowledge. In addition to this, permanently installed fabric membranes are being used in ever greater quantities.

The guild’s aims are to help it’s members to meet these changes with advice, knowledge, and education. The objectives of the guild are:

To provide an increased working knowledge of the technology and working practices available to the Tentmaster.

To provide a wider understanding of the varied and diverse sections of this field of knowledge.

To provide communication between the Guild, legislators, examiners and end users.

To educate in terms of safe working practices and new developments, and to promote awareness of the guild education activities to a wider sphere.

To provide a training course for Tentmasters with written, oral, and practical examinations, part of which may involve the setting of training standards, and to monitor the performance of tent masters.

To provide an international repository of the accumulated experience of tent masters, to create a technical library, and a technology database of both temporary and permanently installed structures.

Contact – info@tentmasters.org