03-27-2004, 04:47 PM
Hi Patrick,<br>
Do you mean this one?<br>
<img src="http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/Unbelted.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
<img src="http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/Belted.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
<br>
It looks cool even at close distance but it is not a true replica. The patches disposition and the patches themselves are correct and correspond to 4th century AD. They are heat transfers (like those on T-shirts) on cotton fabric.<br>
Cotton was a luxury item in Roman times and could have been worn like the even more expensive silk by high status people (I'm playing the cohort's tribune), notwithstanding, what you would find usually would be linen and wool.<br>
The tunics worn by the Foederati are handsome looking, but they are embroidered. The original patches were tapestry-woven insets, woven at the same time than the tunic. Some details were embroidered on the patches by the flying-shuttle technic.<br>
There are some very rare to trace rsts of tunic decorated by the so-called resist-dieing process. I've aped that technic on my tunic.<br>
The patches on my mantle are machine embroidered. Some day I'll rob a bank (a big one, of course, ) and then I'll order correctly handmade tunic and cloak. In the meantime, my friend, the only way left to us, late Roman reenactors is to choose which one of the availble shortcuts shall be use to try to look as authentic as possible, without being really authentic!<br>
<br>
Aitor <p></p><i></i>
Do you mean this one?<br>
<img src="http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/Unbelted.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
<img src="http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/Belted.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
<br>
It looks cool even at close distance but it is not a true replica. The patches disposition and the patches themselves are correct and correspond to 4th century AD. They are heat transfers (like those on T-shirts) on cotton fabric.<br>
Cotton was a luxury item in Roman times and could have been worn like the even more expensive silk by high status people (I'm playing the cohort's tribune), notwithstanding, what you would find usually would be linen and wool.<br>
The tunics worn by the Foederati are handsome looking, but they are embroidered. The original patches were tapestry-woven insets, woven at the same time than the tunic. Some details were embroidered on the patches by the flying-shuttle technic.<br>
There are some very rare to trace rsts of tunic decorated by the so-called resist-dieing process. I've aped that technic on my tunic.<br>
The patches on my mantle are machine embroidered. Some day I'll rob a bank (a big one, of course, ) and then I'll order correctly handmade tunic and cloak. In the meantime, my friend, the only way left to us, late Roman reenactors is to choose which one of the availble shortcuts shall be use to try to look as authentic as possible, without being really authentic!<br>
<br>
Aitor <p></p><i></i>
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