10-07-2014, 06:36 PM
Hi Dan
Probably you know the reasons of your "quilting" conviction is the only true one. The point is that you say it, but I did not see any resoning suporting your words.
Aldrete work show experimentaly that glued ones were possible to be made, and more resistant than quilted. I did not see any experimental data on your side.
Cornelius Nepos seems to sugest that Iphirates introduced linen armour.
You say:
"Did the Greeks and Romans wear linen and leather armour? Yes.
Was it made in the shape of a muscled cuirass? No."
I´m sure you have some sort of information that supports this drastical answer...
Quilting was for sure used, but also glues could been use, depending on the requirements of the armour.
I must say that Mediterraneans, do we love glues, more than quilting, a primtive technique of barbarians...
Egiptian museums are full of art work made with gluies.
Romans have a great knowlege of them. Aqueducts and bridges were glued with a special hidrophobic mortar...so good that they are still working. We use them to prepare canvas for painting.
In the other hand I have not seen any Roman post Augustus linen "quilted" armour of any officers in sculptures o paintings. All of them show a sort of musculata armours.
I do expect some feedback, including pictures to support your point of view.
Probably you know the reasons of your "quilting" conviction is the only true one. The point is that you say it, but I did not see any resoning suporting your words.
Aldrete work show experimentaly that glued ones were possible to be made, and more resistant than quilted. I did not see any experimental data on your side.
Cornelius Nepos seems to sugest that Iphirates introduced linen armour.
You say:
"Did the Greeks and Romans wear linen and leather armour? Yes.
Was it made in the shape of a muscled cuirass? No."
I´m sure you have some sort of information that supports this drastical answer...
Quilting was for sure used, but also glues could been use, depending on the requirements of the armour.
I must say that Mediterraneans, do we love glues, more than quilting, a primtive technique of barbarians...
Egiptian museums are full of art work made with gluies.
Romans have a great knowlege of them. Aqueducts and bridges were glued with a special hidrophobic mortar...so good that they are still working. We use them to prepare canvas for painting.
In the other hand I have not seen any Roman post Augustus linen "quilted" armour of any officers in sculptures o paintings. All of them show a sort of musculata armours.
I do expect some feedback, including pictures to support your point of view.
