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Namaste & Welcome to Hummingbird Tipis
We are a friendly, family-business of quality tipi makers who are based in the beautiful county of Herefordshire.

As you might expect, we do lots of things with tipis. I know, Genius… and for the benefit of the search engines, I’ll just list them out here:

Tipi (Teepee) hire, Tipi for sale, Festival Tipi hire, Tipi holidays, Tipi repairs, Bespoke canvas tailoring, Tipi information, Tipi installation, Tipi accessories, bespoke tipis and yet more stuff centred around the tipi.
Oh, and we’ll also give sound advice when requested.

We have been sewing tipis for nearly ten years now and it is really wonderful that the tipi is attracting so much attention, and folks are finding the joys to be had with these structures, I imagine the sioux indians laughing heartily at the knowledge of our little green island fast turning into a white mans reservation camp, But, I am sure they would be happy to know that the spirit of outdoor life, among the elements, natural human, that primal calling has not yet been fully rinsed out of the population here by the washing machine of capitalist society…

You’ll find our tipis in many different places all over the UK and being used by a wide range of people, organisations and groups, we’re very proud of this, it is so nice to have such a wonderfully positive item to offer you, I mean we could be making cluster bombs for lockheed Martin, but thankfully instead we get to see happy faces, excited humans, joyful, pleased, delighted and playful. It is an exception in this world, and we love it, I think this comes over in our tipis, once you’ve seen one you’ll always recognise one.

We like to think we’ve built our reputation on what we do, not what we say, and what we do is simple, like the best things; We ensure quality of materials, quality of craftsmanship, and plenty of attention to detail. We take time to explain or help and we hope you’ll find the best tipi you can for yourself, with us or other suppliers, the choice is always yours, after all it is not a disposable item and it is not even a cheap consumer quick-fix purchase, you want a tipi that will last in excess of ten years, that is high quality, looks fabulous, keeps you dry and doesn’t fall apart with rot in a couple of years.

We do have limits on the amount of tipis we can sew in the year as we refuse to grow any larger than that which we means we cannot do it ourselves, we are not profit driven capitalist despots, we are human and only have so much that we can give our full attention to and produce quality tipis. This means it might not be possible to have new tipis made during periods when we are busy with tipi hire and you may not get a hire when we are busy with, well, hires…. Early booking or ordering is prudent but please always give us a call and we’ll help where we can.

Last year we were pleased to have as new customers some great social and environmental projects, we had some forward thinking schools using them as outdoor classrooms and part of ECO education programmes for children, a couple of new sustainable ECO retreats and campsites setting up new ventures. We supplied for  corporate activities, holiday’s and lots of festival tipi use; It was a pleasure to see so many people enjoying these wonderful structures in one great location or another.

We are grateful to all, for the enthusiasm, fun and support, we look forward to helping new customers & friends over 2011.

If you can’t find what you are looking for please call or email us and we’ll help where we can.

With thanks
Hummingbird Tipis

SPRING TIPI COMPETITION

This spring at the Malvern Spring Show and Hay on Wye Festival, we held a competition to win a new 16FT Tipi complete with all flooring, delivered and pitched.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the winner of our competition is: Maureen Hand from Brecon, Powys.

We notified Maureen, who was extremely surprised and over the moon!!

Well done to you Maureen, we hope you and your family will get many years of good times from your new hummingbird Tipi, and thank you to those of you who took part, sorry there can only be one winner!

Maureen Hand will be having her tipi delivered at the end of June after the Glastonbury Festival, I hope to post photos and her comments after she takes possession of the tipi for the summer.

We will be holding another competition soon, so watch this space.

It’ll soon be that time of year again, we hope to see you at this years big events…

Glastonbury Festival, The Big Chill, Global Gathering, Download, Isle of Wight, Rewind, Vintage, Latitude,
Sonisphere, Hay Literary Festval, Oxygen, Electric Picnic, Kendal Calling, The End of the Road…

Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man
1863-1950

You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round….. The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours….
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

Hummingbird Tipis
Quality tipi makers of herefordshire UK
01432 379024

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Promote Peace, live happily…

Namaste