12-28-2005, 01:19 AM
Quote:Salve Travis,
I honestly don't know. My guess though is that it is a result of washing the fabric and then rolling it onto the bolt.
I am going to be making a 1st C. tunic with gathered seams and I wanted to try out various techniques. I think gathers, either intentionally made or a product of the material explain a lot of the pleats we see in Roman clothes, so I wanted to get your opinion.
Quote:RE ceramics: I would LOVE to make molded Arretine ware, but alas, to do it properly, I would have to take a plaster cast of an original piece. So until I find a way to do that, I will not be making any.
But thank you for the lovely compliment on my work
What would it take? What if someone had a reproduction of arrentine ware? The surviving molds are all in terra cotta, which shrinks as it dries, so you can't make a terracotta mold of something already fired very easily, but I suspect the artisan's back then were just as good at modeling in the negative as in the positive, so the mold is probably the original.
Well my interest is more than academic. I think that many pieces of armor were molded leather and I am wondering if terracotta molds were used to make leather forms, so I'm looking for someone with experience making one.
Also, have you ever made any bird-incised Byzantine glazed ware or pilgrimage flasks? I love your canteens and campware, I would love to have some in a byzantine style.
Theodoros of Smyrna (Byzantine name)
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