Real Deal Spolas

[Dan Howard]

ALL of those are shown not flexing and the same length. Those depictions where the torso armour is continuous, often are shown with longer, flexible ptyreges (Alex. Mosaic etc.). Those examples are twined.

Those examples MIGHT be twined. I think that there was a range of construction methods for pteryges and that some were probably twined but there is no way to know how common the practice was. We have to be wary of taking a rare example of something and pretending that it was commonly used.