11-02-2006, 02:13 PM
Quote:Graham,
Is your cloak cut from one piece of cloth?
Apart from the separate hood, yes it is.
Some of the cloaks in the recent exhibition on Manchester were finished in a variety of ways. One had a plaited edge with a highly twisted cord next to it. Another cloaks edge had been folded double and then hemmed and trimmed with a fringe. Some even had weft-looped wool pile incorporated on the inside to provide extra warmth. The cloak found in Egypt mentioned previously was woven in a dense weft-faced 1.2 twill. The seams were stitched and a single row of stitches was inserted on either side of the front seam to help keep the fabric flat.
Source: Clothing Culture: Dress in Egypt in the first Millennium AD. Frances Pritchard Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester 2006.
Jef
At first glance I would not have guessed that the two cloaks on the left of your picture were Paenula types at all! Do they all have hoods?
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"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.
"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.
