I didn't build it, John (deceased now) did. Basically, as I remember (early 70's) he measured the largest square that would fit in his bedroom without the door interfering. Then, half way from one corner to another, he set up a string at 54* from the horizontal. The same at each halfway side. Then from the ceiling he hung a string in centre. And from this matrix, he measured length from centre top to corner and cut a piece of dowel rod an inch and a bit too long, four times.
I remember he spent an evening fashioning a tin-foil point (made of heavy coffee-tin inner-lid tin-foil) which held the four dowels. Then with it still dismantled he assembled it in the garden upon the lawn. Using a sharp knife he carved the corners of the square and the quadrants at the right length. Reassembling in his room, he tied the corners with silver-foil once they were each together. Mosquito netting was hung around three sides, and three muslin like sarongs were arranged across the fourth.
Once you've the picture in mind, the hardest part is to fix the point of the quadrants so that the sides are at 54*.
I suppose, nowadays, I should have drawn it all on TD paper, and assembled parts, then sold on internet as meditation tent, for new age hippies 😂 😇
There you go, someone can make some quids. 😉
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