09-08-2011, 03:41 PM
No, but you wouldnt weave a checked cloth from diamond twill, checked cloth is rare at least at vindolanda(one sample? from Hundreds)which might suggest a different type of cloth/weave was being worn generally, Vindolanda is fairly well documented(see http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/ )the wooden forts at this time were regularly levelled and the refuse buried at less then 10 year intervals, this is at the edge of the world(to a Roman)so you might expect to find a much higher quantity of local or at least regional products and if this included checked cloth in any quantity...
Unfortunatly cloth does not survive well so you have to get your evidence where you can...
Ivor
Unfortunatly cloth does not survive well so you have to get your evidence where you can...
Ivor
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
