02-22-2008, 08:21 AM
The hardest part is the clavi ends - we went with a cross end because of the pattern in the cloth, but the loosely woven cloth has a tendency to fray when it's thin or cut on a curve.
The placing of the segmenta is tricky - effectively we had a test run with a linen one last summer and my brilliant wife worked out what would look right when worn by me, rather than flat. We also discovered a happy medium between my first long tunic and my second short one and made the whole thing a lot wider - the fine wool then hangs in big folds.
My current system is to wear my first plain segmenta (I must decorate those!) linen camisia for working under sub & mail and/or plain wool dalmatic for cold weather and change into my second linen tunic for camp duties and LH and save my best tunic for parades etc.
Good luck with yours
The placing of the segmenta is tricky - effectively we had a test run with a linen one last summer and my brilliant wife worked out what would look right when worn by me, rather than flat. We also discovered a happy medium between my first long tunic and my second short one and made the whole thing a lot wider - the fine wool then hangs in big folds.
My current system is to wear my first plain segmenta (I must decorate those!) linen camisia for working under sub & mail and/or plain wool dalmatic for cold weather and change into my second linen tunic for camp duties and LH and save my best tunic for parades etc.
Good luck with yours
Salvianus: Ste Kenwright
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A member of Comitatus Late Roman Historical Re-enactment Group
My Re-enactment Journal
~ antiquum obtinens ~