08-24-2005, 11:46 AM
Hello John
The use of fibulae to achieve the draping effect is a useful approach which would also help explain why there are so many brooches found on military sites. However as Crispus rightly points out similar effects can be achieved without them often simply by pulling the tunic up slightly higher at the sides.
Even so while creating a curved effect this rarely duplicates the amount of folds that the Roman sculptors have obviously gone to great lengths to depict.
It would be interesting to see pictures of your tunic without the apron if possible to get a better idea of what you have done. Nevertheless you can also see, even in the sources that you have supplied that the curving effect is beginning to happen on the upper body as well so perhaps you could try having the brooches higher up. I for one would certainly be interested in seeing the results of that experiment.
Graham.
The use of fibulae to achieve the draping effect is a useful approach which would also help explain why there are so many brooches found on military sites. However as Crispus rightly points out similar effects can be achieved without them often simply by pulling the tunic up slightly higher at the sides.
Even so while creating a curved effect this rarely duplicates the amount of folds that the Roman sculptors have obviously gone to great lengths to depict.
It would be interesting to see pictures of your tunic without the apron if possible to get a better idea of what you have done. Nevertheless you can also see, even in the sources that you have supplied that the curving effect is beginning to happen on the upper body as well so perhaps you could try having the brooches higher up. I for one would certainly be interested in seeing the results of that experiment.
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
