12-13-2013, 02:42 AM
That might work today when you can drive down to the local store for a roll of wire. People have no idea of how difficult it was to produce enough wire for a single hamata using the technology of the time. The cost of the labour to make the armour was a much smaller percentage of the total cost of armour than it is today.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books