Striped pallae?

[Nathan Ross]

This 3rd Century piece is stripey:

I think that's just single-colour crochet, isn't it? The 'stripes' are the colour of the background showing through. Nice though!

Stripey Tunics in the Santa Maggiore

Yes, the baby is certainly wearing stripes, which shows it was possible. I think the women just have clavi though - the two tones of blue in the dress are possibly intended as relief shading (as on the soldier's orange tunic), with the clavi in yellow.