01-21-2012, 03:15 AM
Hello
just trying a little fake so to say. Or in other words, I'm trying out a rather time intensive way to reproduce late roman / coptic tunics when you don't have the possibility to produce the complete tunic. The approach that seems to come closest is alos the most time intensive unfortunately: take out the weft from the linen base material in the form of the orbiculus and then "weave" in the woollen weft thread with a needle. Takes quite a bit of time as I'm coming to realize. Good thing I'm not a TV addict :-P
OTOH it looks like I'm getting quite good optics out of it and can actually reproduce the technique used with the original I try to copy ("4/2, floating, grouped and crossing warp threads" (from Pritchard, Frances & Chris Verhecken-Lammens. 2001. "Two Wide-Sleeved Linen Tunics from Roman Egypt" in The Roman Textile Industry and its Influence (Rogers, Penelope Walton, Lise Bender Jørgensen & Antoiette Rast-Eicher eds.). Oxbow Books, Oxford.(pp. 21-29), p24).
Small pics of the original are here (zoom view doesn't work :-( ).
Here 2 pics (max diameter ca. 8 cm):
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just trying a little fake so to say. Or in other words, I'm trying out a rather time intensive way to reproduce late roman / coptic tunics when you don't have the possibility to produce the complete tunic. The approach that seems to come closest is alos the most time intensive unfortunately: take out the weft from the linen base material in the form of the orbiculus and then "weave" in the woollen weft thread with a needle. Takes quite a bit of time as I'm coming to realize. Good thing I'm not a TV addict :-P
OTOH it looks like I'm getting quite good optics out of it and can actually reproduce the technique used with the original I try to copy ("4/2, floating, grouped and crossing warp threads" (from Pritchard, Frances & Chris Verhecken-Lammens. 2001. "Two Wide-Sleeved Linen Tunics from Roman Egypt" in The Roman Textile Industry and its Influence (Rogers, Penelope Walton, Lise Bender Jørgensen & Antoiette Rast-Eicher eds.). Oxbow Books, Oxford.(pp. 21-29), p24).
Small pics of the original are here (zoom view doesn't work :-( ).
Here 2 pics (max diameter ca. 8 cm):
front
back