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About the sources on the Coriis Tegimenta, I am preparing a brief publication in Italian and English. I will warn the parties in the your specific Topic.

Thankyou Dario, that would be much appreciated.

I do see organic and felt armour being mentioned in Civil Wars Book 3,

Quaecumque erant loca Caesari capienda, etsi prohibere Pompeius totis copiis et dimicare non constituerat, tamen suis locis sagittarios funditoresque mittebat, quorum magnum habebat numerum, multique ex nostris vulnerabantur, magnusque incesserat timor sagittarum, atque omnes fere milites aut ex coactis aut ex centonibus aut ex coriis tunicas aut tegimenta fecerant, quibus tela vitarent.

which McDevitte and Bohn translated as,

When Caesar attempted to gain any place, though Pompey had resolved not to oppose him with his whole force, or to come to a general engagement, yet he detached to particular places slingers and archers, with which his army abounded, and several of our men were wounded, and filled with great dread of the arrows; and almost all the soldiers made coats or coverings for themselves of hair cloths, tarpaulins, or raw hides to defend them against the weapons.

But they seem to be emergency temporary measures and unusual, not worn every day as they had to make them on the spot, and merely extra layers to add protection against an overwhelming number of missiles.