11-01-2006, 07:43 PM
No I haven't seen it Graham- I went by the Camomile Street Soldier's cloak as it was the best primary source I could find showing detail. I've just gone and played with my old cloak and what the problem is, is that the seim-circular nature means that in order to have the edges meet at the front straight as shown in the sculpture, there's a LOT of bunching around and especially at the back of my neck. Certainly because he seems to also have a scarf below his cloak, it's hard to say if the soldier's cloak is also bunched up there, but I don't see the bunching at the front or on the shoulders I do with my own cloak. That's more why I saw his as more circular. I tried to remedy this by cutting a semicircular portion out of the middle, but that just lead to the aforementioned angling of the sides and huge overlap at the top I encountered. In playing around with the design, I found that an approximately 270-degree circle fitted far better- it hung exactly as is shown in the sculpture
My cloak's measurements are virtually the same as you show in your diagram above- 3mx 1.3m
My cloak's measurements are virtually the same as you show in your diagram above- 3mx 1.3m
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