12-29-2005, 11:09 AM
Ashley Holt made a particularly thick one, but I don't recall how many layers he used; I'll ask him. Thirty layers really surprised me; from my experience of 16*, it strikes me it would be very heavy, as well as "stiff as plywood". What did they look like?
I've found my linothorax goes very stiff when cold and the epomides will retain whatever shape I gave them when I took it off (lay it flat, they stick up; put it on a mannequin, they remain curved).
* In fact, it's four layers of linen on each side of a leather core. I have no proof of this as an authentic method, I just wanted to save myself work. Since it behaves pretty much as the art suggests, it could be that it IS correct.
I've found my linothorax goes very stiff when cold and the epomides will retain whatever shape I gave them when I took it off (lay it flat, they stick up; put it on a mannequin, they remain curved).
* In fact, it's four layers of linen on each side of a leather core. I have no proof of this as an authentic method, I just wanted to save myself work. Since it behaves pretty much as the art suggests, it could be that it IS correct.
