Making Pteruges (or at least trying to make Pteruges!)

[madoc]

I can see it acting fine as a shield layer to help strengthen the structure, just not as a flexible armour to help protect the appropriate body parts and looking like the evidence, while being thick enough to do the job.

In _your_ opinion, which what this all boils down to.

I repeat my earlier assertion that I do not believe there is any find of these items, so nobody knows for sure. It looks like, re-reading this entire thread, that many chaps have made theirs from a variety of materials using a variety of styles and construction methods. Surely each is valid, if it emulates the pictorial evidence ?

AntonivsMarivsCongianocvs makes his out of machine sewn cotton and that's fantastic . Martin makes his out of leather and it's not ?? Do I detect a teensy, weensy bit of bloodymindedness and maybe some inter-group sniping ?

I can confirm that dressmaking scissors will cut one of my brass scales in two. Therefore, I am abandoning it as effectively useless and moving to lorica as I cannot cut that ...

I am now officially bored with this and moving to something more interesting.