Glueing a Linothorax

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With natural materials, the most robust way of holing is to use an awl - it pushes aside rather than creates a hole, thus gripping the thread once in place. Use natural thread as well not synthetic. Never use synthetic on natural unless you want it to be loose.

The holes will not weaken it - it will be pretty robust once built!

Attached might show you the fold on the pteregues. Easiest pics I have to hand at the moment

Creating the inner pteregues as a composite part of the upper body build is feasible and will probably be neat, my own interpretation is that they would have been a separate attachment though, and I am pretty convinced that the pattern around the waist is a covering for the stitch line - as you can see this same context in the build around the lino as a whole. There is a practicality consideration for repair and refurbishment (I feel - no basis for supporting this and could argue equally as strongly against it) and a detachable inner layer lends itself far better to that.

Glued or not!

If you want to make the linen go further, you could do a patchwork layer as one or two of the inner layers - you would never know when completed and as it is all glued it will not harm integrity.