This is part of a series of images, mostly Romany, Irish and Scottish Travellers collected from around the internet. Many of these historic images found on the web are without citation. When a clear link to a source is found, I try to include it. If a source is known, please pass it on and I will gladly include it or remove it if necessary.
Preindustrial Craftsmanship 
Didn’t the Romany people use bender tents? The type of tent in this piece doesn’t seem consistent with the history I have read.
It’s impossible to make such a sweeping generalization about several million travelling people at all times and places. There are earlier continental illustrations of some very sophisticated tentage as well as depictions of very poor-looking brush shelters. It seems that the bender we know today is more of a British Isles traveller/homeless/poor nomad structure.
Thanks. I guess the research I read was regional.
Maybe regional and temporal. I’ll bet it was mostly British.