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Got the cloth for a tunic handwoven after a find now at the Abegg Stiftung. It is carbon dated to late 1st - early 3rd cent. AD, featuring a damast weave in yellow/red rectangles with very broad purple clavi (in the pic colors come out a bit more glossy/bright than they actually are). The tunic has the clavi woven in as the original does (so the purple is weft, not warp) with the difference that unlike the original mine has a seam on the shoulder - the loom just wasn't that wide.
![[Image: AbeggTunika_02.jpg]](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e268/ummos1501/ThingsRoman/Cothing/AbeggTunika_02.jpg)
Now, one may wonder if it was ever worn by a man - then again, with shoes like that ... 8)
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I'd say you stand out in a crowd Martin!! Looks brilliant.
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Nice! 
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Talk about breaking all the rules on clavi width!
Great stuff!
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Heck, that breaks all the rules, PERIOD! You're a brave man. Love it!
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Wondering if perhaps these brightly colored tunics would have been preferred by certain occupations or perhaps usually worn on special religious holidays festivals? Anyone have any period written references?
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Nice tunic!!!
Knowing your craftmanship in roman shoemaking, it's funny to see you barefoot... :lol:
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Quote:Knowing your craftmanship in roman shoemaking, it's funny to see you barefoot...
Those floor tiles are nevertheless recorded extensively elsewhere!
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Quote:Knowing your craftmanship in roman shoemaking, it's funny to see you barefoot... :lol:
:lol: you caught me there, good one!
Quote:Those floor tiles are nevertheless recorded extensively elsewhere!
Yes, talk about selective presentation of one's circumstances of daily life 
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yeah, a great tunic. Kinda like it.
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Looks like the flashy stuff freedmen would have worn !!
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Quote:Wondering if perhaps these brightly colored tunics would have been preferred by certain occupations...
Oh, yeah, like a road construction worker! Bwa ha ha...
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Mmm...even a colour blind late Roman would have liked that... :lol:
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Martin, check out the thread, "Dyeing Linen" for a no holds barred discussion of tunic color.
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Pretty impressive. Not even hard on the eyes...
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