Scale Armor & Accuracy

[markusaurelius]

As a note as well, the Dura examples clearly seem to indicate the use of RAWHIDE strips to lace the leather edging on, and not leather. That being said the Carpow one seems to use leather, and some of the Dura fragment also seem to show a more leather looking lace. But those could simply be miss-identification as the leather/rawhide could be stained or preserved with some chemical that made it all one color.

Also interesting is that one scale shirt/armor piece had two layers for the backing. Linen/burlap, with a layer of leather, with a triangular decoration along the bottom edge. I've seen these example miss-identified as a subarmalis, however that can't be the case, since the one example still has iron scales attached and remnants of the same interwoven edge stitching.

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