Check(er)ed clothing in the Roman army, 1st C

[Joze Noriker]

..but in the classical Celtic's continental Europe the differences are strong (again) in different time periods:Hallstattic textiles are not the same as the la Tenne textiles (and maybe there were the geographical-differneces, too) and the Romans comes in contact with the Celts/Gauls in la Tenne time. In la Tenne time the textiles were usually monochome (i worte 2 x this point) or made of the stipes (i wrote of the lines). If the classical chronists wrote "celtic textiles were checkered" we still don't know: in wich meaning, in wich style, wich weaving techniques, wich clothes concrete, etc ...(i wrote all this facts) and if we make a paralele to the textile items that we know of that time: than can we make more realistic understanding of that textiles. Usually the Scythian&Amasonian+s visual pictures on the Greek's ceramics are highly checkered but in fact the textiles of the Scytians were not maded by this style, their patterns were different. It was a sheme and shematic (iconografic) meaning about the barbarians.

Joze