06-26-2005, 08:45 PM
The tunics found at En Gedi were made from 2 panels each, joined at the tops and sides. They were woven sideways, so that the selvege edges are at the top and bottom, and the clavi were actually horizontal on the loom. This appears to be typical for the time, since Jewish law stated that a ritually proper tunic had to have the clavi meeting neatly at the top! You can see that it would be easy enough to make the clavi at different intervals while weaving the 2 panels of a tunic...
Presumably each panel was indeed woven to the size needed, so the sides would be finished edges, too. No hemming of the armholes would be required.
As has been pointed out, it's just darn hard to find modern fabrics that are just the right size! So we hem... (Sew wee hem, good advice!)
Oh, yes, there was at least one linen shirt found at En Gedi that was all one piece, though I believe it was sewn at the sides. All this from Yigael Yadin's book, "Bar Kochba".
Punchy. Been on evil machine too long. Valete.
Matthew/Quintus
Presumably each panel was indeed woven to the size needed, so the sides would be finished edges, too. No hemming of the armholes would be required.
As has been pointed out, it's just darn hard to find modern fabrics that are just the right size! So we hem... (Sew wee hem, good advice!)
Oh, yes, there was at least one linen shirt found at En Gedi that was all one piece, though I believe it was sewn at the sides. All this from Yigael Yadin's book, "Bar Kochba".
Punchy. Been on evil machine too long. Valete.
Matthew/Quintus
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