04-24-2006, 02:52 PM
Quote:I put on a lorica hamata over my thick and baggy handwoven (wool) tunic I got from Cacaius and found out that it would be almost impossible to add a padded subarmalis to this. There is already so much fabic under the mail! If you wore a thin linen tunic or a narrow woolen one it would go perfectly with a subarmalis but with a wide baggy woolen tunic it really seems impossible to me...Hi Jef
It is an intriguing possibility that a thick wool tunic would have made any padding superfluous. However perhaps you are approaching things the wrong way. Have you started off with a narrow 'T' shaped mail shirt which you are then trying to cram everything into, the tunic, the subarmalis, yourself! The Romans may have taken those things into consideration and supplied wider mail shirts, tunic shaped, we just do not know for certain.
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
