TUNIC SIZES

[Tarbicus]

Tarbicus,

The pictures you posted are very good but they are not scale shirts. Having sleeves on a scale shirt is not a good idea since the scales will catch each other when moving the arm. (arm to body scales catching)

To avoid this, the bottom of the sleeve cannot have scales but some cloth only.

Besides all the reconstructions I have seen of scale armor are all sleevless. They all finish where a hamata finishes.

I have seen two scale shirts like those of Sertoius. One belongs to a gentleman I believe is in Sweden. He made a squamata similar to sertorius where he has a partial scaled sleeve with cloth on the bottom.

The other is Dan Peterson with his plumata. There are no sleeves on that. What he has is the situation that the curator described to me. Sertorius is considered to be wearing a plumata not a squamata (curator did not mention this). If one then considers that Sertorius has scales on mail, then the mail part would be similar to a short sleeve hamata.

But for the scales to go over the pectoral region into the shoulder giving a smooth finish, you cannot have a bonified sleeve like in a hamata. Thus you get the situation where the scales go over the shoulder bordering the tricept as described above. The body under the arm is scaled making the bishop type mantle appear as a sleeve.

Anyone know if this is a genuine squamata?


http://www.dreamlands.de/larp-ruestung.htm

And another very folded tunic, but beneath scalloped pteryges this time.