07-27-2015, 10:25 PM
If Astrakhan wool is very tightly curled and clings close to the skin, creating a rather beautiful pattern of short tessellating spirals, then I have seen Pannonian caps made of this on sale a couple of years ago. I didn't buy one (although I was tempted) and I don't recall who was selling them, but I seem to recall both Peronis (Adrian Wink of Armamentaria) and Caballo (Paul Browne) [both RAT members] buying them and one of them might be able to tell you who was selling them.
Pannonian caps are extremely simple to make yourself, as (in their most basic form) they consist of just a length of material long enough to go around your head and a round circle whose circumference is about the same as that length. My own Pannonian cap is made from rabbit fur, and although quite close fitting (and actually the same shape and size as the one Robert wears in his profile picture), ends up resembling a fur hat my mother used to wear, thanks to the length of the hair in the fur, just so you can compare a fur one with a woollen one. My tunic is copied from one which was auctioned at Christie's a few years ago. Both can be seen here (where for some reason I look shorter in first century mode than I do in fourth century mode [maybe it's just that Byron is short and the camera crew were tall]):
https://picasaweb.google.com/10168561909...0126832178
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Pannonian caps are extremely simple to make yourself, as (in their most basic form) they consist of just a length of material long enough to go around your head and a round circle whose circumference is about the same as that length. My own Pannonian cap is made from rabbit fur, and although quite close fitting (and actually the same shape and size as the one Robert wears in his profile picture), ends up resembling a fur hat my mother used to wear, thanks to the length of the hair in the fur, just so you can compare a fur one with a woollen one. My tunic is copied from one which was auctioned at Christie's a few years ago. Both can be seen here (where for some reason I look shorter in first century mode than I do in fourth century mode [maybe it's just that Byron is short and the camera crew were tall]):
https://picasaweb.google.com/10168561909...0126832178
Crispvs
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