03-28-2006, 06:54 AM
Back here again...
Robert,
Many thanks for answering questions on my behalf!
(Oh, and it was good and deliberated to loss those 20 kilos, I had reached an over-plump condition during the first half of 2005! :roll: )
Jim,
I'm usually beardless, except during re-enactment periods and, don't worry, I wore my polyester pants under the woollen ones! :wink:
Travis,
Forget about that trapezoidal shape, please. Try with a semicircular shape and you'll look exactly like if you were accompanying Justinian on the Ravenna mosaic!
You have a clue on a small sketch on Graham Sumner's Roman Military Clothing I (Sorry, I haven't it with me now and I cannot recall the page) An oval cloak from Egypt, with two elongated rectangular patches, the tabliones. Fold it in two (Do it perpendicularly to the inset rectangles) and you'll have a canonical one. I'll try to post on the following days images from Theodosius' missorium and a Consular dyptich where it can be clearly seen that those courtly cloaks were double thickness, folded in two! 8)
Aitor
Robert,
Many thanks for answering questions on my behalf!
(Oh, and it was good and deliberated to loss those 20 kilos, I had reached an over-plump condition during the first half of 2005! :roll: )
Jim,
I'm usually beardless, except during re-enactment periods and, don't worry, I wore my polyester pants under the woollen ones! :wink:
Travis,
Forget about that trapezoidal shape, please. Try with a semicircular shape and you'll look exactly like if you were accompanying Justinian on the Ravenna mosaic!
You have a clue on a small sketch on Graham Sumner's Roman Military Clothing I (Sorry, I haven't it with me now and I cannot recall the page) An oval cloak from Egypt, with two elongated rectangular patches, the tabliones. Fold it in two (Do it perpendicularly to the inset rectangles) and you'll have a canonical one. I'll try to post on the following days images from Theodosius' missorium and a Consular dyptich where it can be clearly seen that those courtly cloaks were double thickness, folded in two! 8)
Aitor
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Rolf Steiner
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