09-27-2005, 06:17 AM
From De Rebus Bellicis on the thoracomachus "invented to counter the weight and friction of armour...made to measure from felt to protect the human body was worked out of soft wool...in case the weight of the thoracomachus should be increased when it is sodden with rain (obviously he went to the same re-enactment events I've been to 
) and should therefore hamper the wearer it will certainly be advisable to wear on top of it a similar garment made of well-prepared Libyan fleeces to the cut ofthe Thorachomachus".
A similar jerkin of felt and leather was used in WW2 as an over-jacket. I am sure the Roman design was very different, but the concept seems to work!
The picture looks for all the world like a padded doublet- but was it a copy of the original picture, or a product of the medieval copyist?
Cheers
Britannicus
) and should therefore hamper the wearer it will certainly be advisable to wear on top of it a similar garment made of well-prepared Libyan fleeces to the cut ofthe Thorachomachus".A similar jerkin of felt and leather was used in WW2 as an over-jacket. I am sure the Roman design was very different, but the concept seems to work!
The picture looks for all the world like a padded doublet- but was it a copy of the original picture, or a product of the medieval copyist?
Cheers
Britannicus
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