wool/linen wide enough for long sleeves

[Matthew Amt]

Huh, I don't think poorer people would be able to buy cloth woven by someone else. They'd more likely do their own weaving. And weaving a tunic in one piece assures that there is no wasted fabric, BUT it requires warping a VERY wide loom and essentially wasting a lot of warp yarn for the sections above and below the sleeves. So my guess would be that they'd weave a narrower piece, wide enough for the whole body, with the sleeves separate below that. Medieval tunics were certainly woven that way, typically 22 inches wide.

http://www.larp.com/midgard/tunic.htm

Isn't the Thorsbjerg tunic made with sewn-on sleeves? Dates for that run from first to 4th century AD.

Mind you, if the fashion of the time required a tunic woven in one piece, that's what they'd make! Regardless of what future generations might think of as "logical".

Matthew