How to make orbiculi.

[Robert Vermaat]

It would be astonishingly expensive to have the clavi and orbiculi woven in in a tapestry manner, I'd reckon. A lowly line soldier could not expect to own such a garment. Clothing was expensive enough without being that intricate.

I think such clothing was a lot less expensive than it is today. Much of it was used again and again, being sen on new garments. Lowly soldiers were time and again paid in kind intead of in coin, maybe that's how they got nice clothing?

I now see the finds, thank you for the sources. But how did they protect these? They surely damage, when you sit.

Perhaps it damages less than you think? Like I mentioned before, clavi also ran across the back, they would in your opinion also be prone to damaging? yet they continue as part of the fasion for centuries. Orbiculi were reused, perhaps they dmage less fast than expected?