11-23-2009, 10:35 PM
Hi Christian
I like the Igel images, never seen them in colour before, are they published anywhere? What are the reconstructed colours based on?
Quite right of course. However I was wondering if the reason it was done in pre Industrial Age Britain might have been the same as in the Roman period, given that many of the specialist tools and methods did not appear to change. Plus I seem to remember hearing Carol Van Driel Murray say that she thought (or wondered perhaps) if a lot of Roman leatherwork was coloured yellow.
Graham.
I like the Igel images, never seen them in colour before, are they published anywhere? What are the reconstructed colours based on?
Quote:Hm. 1700 years seem quite far-fetched for my taste, regarding the massive changes in equipment etc, only between 9 and 90 or 9 and 250 or 1871 an 1971.
Quite right of course. However I was wondering if the reason it was done in pre Industrial Age Britain might have been the same as in the Roman period, given that many of the specialist tools and methods did not appear to change. Plus I seem to remember hearing Carol Van Driel Murray say that she thought (or wondered perhaps) if a lot of Roman leatherwork was coloured yellow.
Graham.
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"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.
