late roman equipment

[Mithras]

BTW, Mithras, what color are your orbiculli ? Are they purple ? The picture makes them look pinkish. Very nice, though, I must say. I like the trim.

Theo, I love, I really love, that red tunic of yours.

My orbuculli are red, but a slightly pinkish red. The colours on the photo are awful, indoor lighting. I hope to get a full costume photo this weekend.

[Theodosius the Great]

Thanks, Mithras.

My orbuculli are rd, but a slightly pinkish red. THe colours on the photo are awful, indoor lighting.

Yeah, I know how indoor lighting distorts color. Looking forward to seeing your new pictures.

[aitor iriarte]

If any advantage is on painting/printing it is that you can choose exactly accurate patterns for the patches (A difficult task, often misleading due to the big bulk of so-called 'Coptic' textiles, which are several centuries younger than the periods we portrait... :roll: )


Aitor

[Paulus Claudius Damianus]

This is the new Herculiani embroided tunic by Verina. Full of of work on this pattern but the result is very nice (what a luck for arbatio...)

[arbogast]

Great work !!!

Here's the tunic made by my wife and I for my son. It was firstly painted and then embroidered.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/ ... IM0378.jpg

[arbogast]

The tunic in full view
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/ ... IM0375.jpg

orbiculi :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/ ... IM0376.jpg

[Mithras]

Very nice Alain, very nice. hock:

Do you paint directly onto the linen? Or do you paint onto linen pieces, then sew them on??

[FAVENTIANVS]

[size=200:282ypbla]Extremely beautifull tunics! [/size]Congratulations guys!

[Robert Vermaat]

Wow, excellent work!

[arbogast]

Yes Mithras, it's directly painted on the tunic. It's such an easy thing to do. For the embroideries it's not that complicated if you use wool (thick enough).

[Sassanid]

I want to get in on the act. :lol: Mine is a little earlier - the 3rd Century and based on the Terentius painting.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y102/S ... ERENT1.jpg

And yes they are purple. They only look black because of the light.

Andrew

[arbogast]

It looks good !

[aitor iriarte]

Damien,
Could you please post details of that beautiful 'blue' tunic?
Be careful with the use of square 'tabulae' insets. AFAIK, they weren't employed on tunics earlier than late fourth century. For earlier impressions, round 'orbiculi' would be more appropriated... :wink:

Oh, BTW, my Mum is finished the second reconstruction of the Damendorf trousers, this time using more accurate handwoven herringbone twill, furnished by Cacaius.

Aitor

[Titus Amatius Paulus]

Many tanks to everybody for your examples of tunics, are beatifull, I think that I have to make two or three with all of this examples....

[Barbara]

Sound like fashion victims in here.. :-) )

Here is one of the new tunics from the Minervii - hand sewn an hand stitched. The size bases on the tunics that are conserved complete, like the ones in krefeld or cologne (collection columba). The pattern from the orbiculi is taken from a find from Palmyra, 3. century, the pattern of the clavi is added in the same style, but modern. The linnen of the tunic is a 100year old hand woven linnen, the cloth of the clavi is linnen to, but modern and attached to the tunic after the pattern was stitched on it.


Authari with his treasure... ;-) )

For details look here: (had trouble with the size of the pics in here...strange..)

The orbiculus an the clavi in the left bottom corner
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/K ... G_0013.jpg

The clavi on the right arm
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/K ... G_0014.jpg

The detail of the head-opening
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/K ... G_0012.jpg