07-20-2019, 06:43 PM
(07-19-2019, 05:55 PM)Feinman Wrote: I've stopped this project, because I now feel that the spolas was likely made from layers of leather, perhaps water-hardened, instead of oiled and waxed hides.. Rawhide is still too susceptible to moisture, even wrinkling with humidity in the air, though it could be used for scale armour if sealed properly. I am going to suggest something controversial.. I suspect that the white color seen on what could be spolioi in depictions might actually be lead white ground in oil. Here's why: The other white pigments available at the time are too powdery --they would crumble right off the leather, and they don't have the covering power of white lead, as well as being extremely susceptible to moisture. Painted designs wouldn't adhere properly etc.
Have you thought about baking rawhide to remove excess moisture and then sealing it?
I'm also of the opinion that the pteurges could be made by tablet weave from suitably robust twine and I suspect would hang better...
I think the spolas could be covered with a white leather, tawed and even tanned leather can be naturally white or close to it.
A White Hellenistic shoe from Egypt (allegedly)
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/164463
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
