Puzzled about tension band

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Hi everyone. This is my first post, though I've been coming here for helpful hints since I started building my yurt last fall.

I've been leaning heavily on Paul King's book, "The Complete Yurt Handbook" for the project. I'm not following his plans to the letter, but my yurt will be very close to his Mongolian "Ger" design (16' diameter). I'm hoping a few of you have done something similar, since there's an aspect to the disign that I feel needs some further explanation.

Specifically, King's ger has a fabric tension band to hold the walls in and its wall cover hangs from the top of the khanas by loops of cord. Yet his directions on putting on the yurt cover (p. 115, "Fitting the Cover" as well as on his Woodland Yurts web site) say the tension band goes on before the wall cover.

Mike

My question: The tension band completely covers the tops of the khanas when in place. So how am I to hang the wall cover afterwards. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.