08-18-2007, 03:54 AM
Greetings,
My reference to bias cutting was as to how to achieve an effect. The drapiness and multiple folds seen in clothing in Greek sculpture then in Roman sculpture can be achieved this way. Bias cut cloth would have had the same properties then as today.
When you ask what the Romans would do, one has to ask, which Romans? When looking at the enormous drapiness of especially women's clothes and the fullness of the garments one would think that some larger looms were being used.
The link below is to an image of a lekthos from 550 BC depicting two women standing at an upright loom. The loom seems of a size capable of producing fabric far wider and longer than a large tunic. Large pieces of fabric can be worked differently than those woven to size.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/v ... m=31.11.10
Weaving to size is efficient, doubtlessly a handsome garment can be created this way. But it should not rule out other techniques. Making fabric lay down into the many small, even folds depicted continues to be the question.
Thanks,
Satorius
(Linda Satorius)
My reference to bias cutting was as to how to achieve an effect. The drapiness and multiple folds seen in clothing in Greek sculpture then in Roman sculpture can be achieved this way. Bias cut cloth would have had the same properties then as today.
When you ask what the Romans would do, one has to ask, which Romans? When looking at the enormous drapiness of especially women's clothes and the fullness of the garments one would think that some larger looms were being used.
The link below is to an image of a lekthos from 550 BC depicting two women standing at an upright loom. The loom seems of a size capable of producing fabric far wider and longer than a large tunic. Large pieces of fabric can be worked differently than those woven to size.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/v ... m=31.11.10
Weaving to size is efficient, doubtlessly a handsome garment can be created this way. But it should not rule out other techniques. Making fabric lay down into the many small, even folds depicted continues to be the question.
Thanks,
Satorius
(Linda Satorius)
