10-12-2009, 11:14 PM
Matt Lukes wrote:
...I too would be most interested in this aspect, for as Matt has identified, this would seem to be a fairly fundamental objection to the idea of 'glued layers of linen'. Having said that, it may be significant that where 'glue' was required to hold, say, a helmet lining in place in a sweaty environment such as a helmet, pitch rather than glue seems to have been more commonly used , re-inforcing the idea that protein based animal glues were unsuitable for such a purpose......
Quote:I'm curious though- did you not encounter the same problem I did with the natural glues? Whether they work or not in ideal form I wouldn't have thought to be terribly significant if there is such seemingly fundamental flaw of protein glues as water solubility. Further to that, was the example you found wearing wasn't uncomfortable, etc., the PVA version or one of the natural glue pieces? And if it was one of the latter, was sweat not a problem afterall?
...I too would be most interested in this aspect, for as Matt has identified, this would seem to be a fairly fundamental objection to the idea of 'glued layers of linen'. Having said that, it may be significant that where 'glue' was required to hold, say, a helmet lining in place in a sweaty environment such as a helmet, pitch rather than glue seems to have been more commonly used , re-inforcing the idea that protein based animal glues were unsuitable for such a purpose......
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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