03-22-2015, 07:12 PM
Kevin
As Mike has pointed out you do not get button holes in surviving textiles and as far as I know they were unknown in the Roman period. Recently I did some paintings of figures in the Byzantine era for Timothy Dawson and even at that date they are still using the button and loop method for closing.
Equally the Camomile type is not he only method of closing used. As I said earlier one other example appears to be sewn closed while another appears to be laced together.
Quite a superb collection of fasteners Brian!
Graham.
As Mike has pointed out you do not get button holes in surviving textiles and as far as I know they were unknown in the Roman period. Recently I did some paintings of figures in the Byzantine era for Timothy Dawson and even at that date they are still using the button and loop method for closing.
Equally the Camomile type is not he only method of closing used. As I said earlier one other example appears to be sewn closed while another appears to be laced together.
Quite a superb collection of fasteners Brian!
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
