05-25-2016, 06:38 AM
(05-24-2016, 08:48 PM)JoeSmoe69 Wrote: The border stitching on belt and apron straps is something I've noticed more recently featured on reconstructions of early principate military belts, mostly in the past 5-10 years.
What is the purpose of the stitching? What is the supporting evidence?
Regards, Dave
Hi Dave. Welcome back.
Although I have the 'real' sources not at hand, I can tell a little about what evidence we have.
*Finds of leather parts, mostly from the later empire shows indeed a double folded belt out of soft leather with a fabric reinforcement core.
*new interpretations of militairy stelae also suggest stitching borders on the belts
Furthermore, in archeology, it seems that most of the belt plate sets that were found 'complete' only show us a small number of beltplates (up to only 6 plates). This all gave a new changed view on the roman militairy belts recently. If I'm rigth there is also a written account of linnen core into a leather belt, but I didn't see that one myself, sofar.
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Jvrjenivs Peregrinvs Magnvs / FEBRVARIVS
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Jvrjenivs Peregrinvs Magnvs / FEBRVARIVS
A.K.A. Jurjen Draaisma
CORBVLO and Fectio
ALA I BATAVORUM