Show here your Roman soldier impression

[Salvianus]

Thanks Robert,

Helen has encouraged me to add a couple more points: it's cut in one piece with the arms included, not sewn on and she tells me this makes it hang better. Also the hand sewn hems also make it hang more naturally than machined.

We looked for a long time to find clavi end shapes that would work with the cloth we had, rather than aiming for the classic pendate ends: there was so much variety implied by the diverse finds on the web collections referenced elswhere on the site that one can hopefully find something that's right for your cloth.

I chose applied machine woven designs because, for a cheap option I think they are closer in spirit to the (re)applied original examples and I happened to find a cloth that looked, from a distance, like the design might be woven into the tunic fabric. The big problem with figural designs is finding symmetrical pictures for the orbiculi.

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