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Lorica segmentata leathering
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11-08-2009, 11:22 AM
Has anybody here ever used anything other than regular vegetable- or chrome-tanned leather for the internal leathering of a lorica seg? The alternatives appear to be alum-tawed, buckskin, and oil-tanned (chamois) leather (I am assuming rawhide is a non-starter if you don't want your lorica seg to be rigid!). An organic method seems the most likely (so I'm guessing that rules out alum tawing, but that tends to leave me with the image of a bouncy chamois-leathered lorica...), given that leathers never survive in the archaeological record except as mineral-preserved fossils, so if anybody has tried these and can offer comments, I would be interested.

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Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-08-2009, 11:22 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-12-2009, 09:43 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-13-2009, 06:07 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Jvrjenivs - 11-13-2009, 08:25 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Jvrjenivs - 11-13-2009, 09:04 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-13-2009, 10:12 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Crispvs - 11-14-2009, 10:24 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-16-2009, 11:27 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-17-2009, 01:31 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-17-2009, 08:59 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-17-2009, 10:12 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-17-2009, 10:29 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Matt Lukes - 11-24-2009, 12:51 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-24-2009, 01:54 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Crispvs - 11-24-2009, 06:17 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Matt Lukes - 11-26-2009, 05:35 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-27-2009, 10:34 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by mcbishop - 11-27-2009, 11:00 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Matt Lukes - 11-29-2009, 05:02 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Jvrjenivs - 12-20-2009, 09:57 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Caballo - 09-22-2010, 05:42 AM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by sulla felix - 09-22-2010, 02:15 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Peroni - 09-22-2010, 02:19 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Caballo - 09-29-2010, 09:25 PM
Re: Lorica segmentata leathering - by Peroni - 10-07-2010, 02:20 PM

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