06-16-2004, 01:37 AM
I want to publicly thank Matt Amt for showing me the small bits of maille that he had made by Erik Schmid. I really would like to know what kind of tooling he developed to work on maille with rings that I would guess are no more than 5mm OD made from I guess 20 gauge wire, about half the size of mine. The question that I have though is such tiny maille really typical of roman hamata? I would think that such tiny rings wouldn't offer much protection. I know that for the 1st century at least the ring size that I'm using, about 10mm OD with about 1.5mm cross section, isn't out of the ball park. See the following for an example:<br>
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www.vicus.org.uk/<br>
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I understand that some almost complete roman maille shirts of ferrous rings have been found. What are the ring sizes? <p></p><i></i>
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www.vicus.org.uk/<br>
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I understand that some almost complete roman maille shirts of ferrous rings have been found. What are the ring sizes? <p></p><i></i>