Ancient \"Kevlar\"

[Athena Areias]

I replaced my glued linen linthorax with a leather spolas (pics to follow someday). I donated the lino (see avatar) for destructive testing (to get it out of circulation). A spearpoint with not much force behind it (we were in a classroom) went right through the front of the lino and would have poked me but good had I been in it. It surprised me. I knew the lino was based on outdated research and a mistranslation, but I felt safe inside it. Wrong. There wasn't even an edge on the spearpoint. Jes' sayin'....