09-16-2015, 02:10 PM
Salvete,
I'm looking to make a couple of tunics, one wool and one linen. I'm going off of the info / dimesnions on the Legio XX website as well as Graham Sumner's Roman Military Dress.
My question is regarding material. For the wool tunic I've been looking at melton wool, but I'm not sure what weight to go with. The heavier weight wools seem much harder to find.
http://www.militaryheritage.com has a natural white 22oz melton at $22.95/meter (and it's 60" wide!) but the minimum buy is 5 yards - which is a lot of fabric.
https://www.fabric.com/buy/0397194/the-s...-off-white has a much lighter 8.5oz melton (also in a natural "oatmeal") with no minium purchase (44" wide).
For linen, looking at:
https://www.fabric.com/buy/0406929/forme...linen-ecru
Any thoughts or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Valete,
Adrian
I'm looking to make a couple of tunics, one wool and one linen. I'm going off of the info / dimesnions on the Legio XX website as well as Graham Sumner's Roman Military Dress.
My question is regarding material. For the wool tunic I've been looking at melton wool, but I'm not sure what weight to go with. The heavier weight wools seem much harder to find.
http://www.militaryheritage.com has a natural white 22oz melton at $22.95/meter (and it's 60" wide!) but the minimum buy is 5 yards - which is a lot of fabric.
https://www.fabric.com/buy/0397194/the-s...-off-white has a much lighter 8.5oz melton (also in a natural "oatmeal") with no minium purchase (44" wide).
For linen, looking at:
https://www.fabric.com/buy/0406929/forme...linen-ecru
Any thoughts or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Valete,
Adrian
