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Keep up to-to-date with the latest news in the Tensile Fabric world, with useful articles and top tips.

The Importance of Cleaning your Canopy

Regular cleaning of tensile fabric structures is essential for maintaining both the appearance and performance of the canopy. We recommend an annual clean on all of our structures.

By Abi Smith, 7/21/2025

Creating Essential Summer Shade

Enjoy the Sunshine – Safely and in Style - with a structure from Tensile Fabric Ltd.

By Abi Smith, 6/26/2025

Benefits of a Walkway Canopy

A tensile fabric structure can be a flexible and cost-effective way to provide all-weather protection with a strong aesthetic look. A walkway canopy is ideal for joining two buildings which are a long way apart or creating a link between two buildings.

By Abi Smith, 1/22/2025

Canopies for Schools

Being outside in the fresh air has numerous benefits for both the brain and the body – simply being outdoors in any weather helps improve health, social and emotional wellbeing. This is especially important for school-age children who should be going outside as much as possible for their physical and mental health and development.

By Abi Smith, 11/27/2024

Prevent Autumn and Winter Sun Glare

Many buildings suffer with heat glare and surprisingly it’s not just in the sunny summer months. Low winter sun can also cause excessive glare in an office building. We can help!

By Abi Smith, 9/25/2024

Is your outside space ready for Autumn?

Make your outside space usable and profitable for the autumn and winter seasons with the addition of premium outdoor dining pods.

By Abi Smith, 8/27/2024

It’s festival season! Are you summer event ready?

A tensile fabric structure can provide the perfect asset for your outside summer event - by helping to keep visitors shaded or dry, or by drawing attention to a feature.

By Abi Smith, 5/30/2024

Time for a Spring Clean?

Tensile fabric structures are all about attention seeking. Why go to the effort of installing a structure but then letting it fall into disrepair – when cleaning is so easy so to do?!

By Abi Smith, 3/28/2024

Allpod for Winter - Cosy Winter Igloos

Transform your outside space and create your very own magical winter fairyland with Allpod's dining pods.

By Abi Smith, 10/2/2023

Top Tips on Improving your Acoustics

Is your open plan office really noisy? Do the customers in your restaurant complain about not being able to hear each other? Is the din in the dinner hall mind-blowingly loud? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, it sounds like you need to think more about improving the noise reverberation in your interior space.

By Abi Smith, 8/17/2023

Summertime Dining Domes

The Allpod is obviously great for dining outdoors in the autumn and winter months, but it is also ideal for summertime to offer guests a premium private dining experience.

By Abi Smith, 5/31/2023

Improve Sun Glare in your Workplace

At Tensile Fabric Ltd we create interior shade sails to protect people inside from the glare and the heat of the sun. We ensure that the structure is the right shape, orientated to screen the tracking sun, made from the correct material to keep enough visible light out, while also being easy to clean and ultimately attractive to look at.

By Abi Smith, 5/11/2023

Dining Pods for Autumn and Winter

Make your outside space usable and profitable for the autumn and winter seasons with the addition of luxury outdoor dining pods.

By Abi Smith, 9/22/2022

Top Tips for Interior Sun Shading

We have had an influx of enquiries this summer for interior shading solutions from the heat and glare of the sun, as so many people are struggling with hot offices and reception areas.

By Abi Smith, 7/14/2022

Pods are Springing Up

With the unpredictability of the British weather, these premium pods offer a brilliant solution for year-round outdoor dining.

By Abi Smith, 4/7/2022 2

Working with Facilities Management

We work closely with Facility Managers to ensure their buildings and environment are maintained to the highest standards and to find suitable fabric solutions for challenges that they may be facing.

By Abi Smith, 2/24/2022

Top tips for picking the right fabric

Tensile fabric means fabric under tension – it is important to understand this as contrary to popular belief, we rarely use stretchy fabrics as they tend to be unpredictable. And for fabric structures we need complete accuracy.

By Abi Smith, 11/9/2021

The Flexibility of Fabric

Never before has the ability to be flexible been so important. Now is the time to ensure that outdoor spaces are maximised so that we can live comfortably with social distancing into the future.

By Abi Smith, 9/24/2020

Open up any Outside Space with Fabric

It is safer being outside at the moment. Many organisations need to think about how they can open up and extend their outdoor spaces.

By Abi Smith, 6/23/2020

Adapting the Work Place for Coronavirus

We are all looking at a new way of working in the Coronavirus world. What is the new ‘normal’? One thing is for sure, integrating distancing measures into office plans will be a must.

By Abi Smith, 5/13/2020

The Tensile Fabric Design Process

Every decision made at the design stage affects how fabric structures are fabricated and built. A good design means efficient manufacture, straight-forward installation and ultimately, best value. Read our 5 key steps to the design process…

By Abi Smith, 4/30/2020

Five Most Popular School Canopies

A tensile fabric structure is a key addition to any nursery, school, academy, college or university, providing valuable extra outdoor space for a multitude of uses.

By Abi Smith, 4/29/2019