04-04-2009, 07:03 AM
The boots have a simple running stitch for seams, and an overstitch for the lace holes. There is a great deal of stitching.
The cavalry scales are punched out using a basic tool. I fear our chap would like to finish the scales for both cavalry armours, and then move on to a third.......
But I think for infantry armour, hand cut scales look much better. Each scale slightly differs from the next and the that is easily detected when a shirt is made up. Forgive me attaching another picture of some of my Roman scale, flexible and rigid. The scales have a different feel about them compared to the regular scales of the horse armour.[attachment=0:3i88m7ef]<!-- ia0 Armour. Mail, flexible and inflexible scale.JPG<!-- ia0 [/attachment:3i88m7ef]
The cavalry scales are punched out using a basic tool. I fear our chap would like to finish the scales for both cavalry armours, and then move on to a third.......
But I think for infantry armour, hand cut scales look much better. Each scale slightly differs from the next and the that is easily detected when a shirt is made up. Forgive me attaching another picture of some of my Roman scale, flexible and rigid. The scales have a different feel about them compared to the regular scales of the horse armour.[attachment=0:3i88m7ef]<!-- ia0 Armour. Mail, flexible and inflexible scale.JPG<!-- ia0 [/attachment:3i88m7ef]
John Conyard
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York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
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