Glued Linen Armour- a simple test

[Mythos_Ruler]

Question. Why must we assume that the linen was "glued"? Could not the edges of the layers of linen been stitched and the layers allowed to "float" freely between each other?

Is it not obvious? We assume because we do not know.

That does not exclude palisaded positions defended unto death and supported by any amount of indirect or circumstantial evidence. The reaction to Ruben’s post is typical: linen thorakes were not used by Greeks and so this “evidence” must be marginalised in some fashion. It is not to be accepted at face value.

It is most entertaining.

I think what I was doing was offering another angle over which to fight. I am wondering about the efficacy of allowing the linen layers "breathing room" and flexibility by simply stitching the edges of the layers instead of gluing the whole thing together to make a hard shell. So the linen layers need to be "hard" in order to be effective against arrows and piercing blows? If not, then they may need not be glued at all.