Very New light on roman tents construction

[John Conyard]

I should add that we discussed this this morning and felt the colours were true and had not faded or oxidised to any degree. The artist had a good palette of colours to work from and was not limited in any way.

Large heavy felted cloaks, often wool and goat hair, could make be made into tent shelters.In some ageogrpahic areas such cloaks may be mulit-coloured. But I would suggest that here we are just looking at simple everyday tents, the multi-colour approach being reminiscent of stripped awnings. But perhaps not leather.......