08-20-2007, 08:52 PM
Hello Linda
Do you have any pictures to illustrate your results?
Otherwise I tend to agree with Paul Crispus. Most of the surviving tunics from the early imperial period are simply two sheets of material sewn together with no cutting. I was also told the same thing by the textile historian Hero Granger-Taylor who said that the Romans rarely cut garments and normally just wove them to shape.
Graham.
Quote: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.
Do you have any pictures to illustrate your results?
Otherwise I tend to agree with Paul Crispus. Most of the surviving tunics from the early imperial period are simply two sheets of material sewn together with no cutting. I was also told the same thing by the textile historian Hero Granger-Taylor who said that the Romans rarely cut garments and normally just wove them to shape.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
