The Linothorax Project

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Leather or linen will stop arrows if you're far enough away. The problem is that why wear Leather Armor if your wool tunic will stop an arrow at the distance you're standing at? Same thing with sword cuts: a thick wool tunic has as much protection as leather.

I saw their tests on the Nat Go channel where the one guy took a bronze arrow while wearing the stuff, without getting hurt. This arrow was a histroically accurate replica with a bronze head fired from a Scythian Composite Bow

As a comparison they fired at a piece of bronze sheet armor and penetrated it, saying it was "worse" when the bow they used was a modern compound bow with a modern day target arrow with a steel head.