05-26-2010, 10:13 AM
Quote:Orlirva:23bxtb0p Wrote:about cotton wadding... I'm not sure what the Byzantine authors ment by that or how it was translated, but I tend to think of cotton in the 17th C England sense - a soft thick loosely woven WOOL material. or as wool batting or felt, loose, or perhaps even a silk batting or felt, as was reported to be in some mongol padded coats. (Considering Byzantium famous as a center of silk production and the known strenght of silk)Yep. We have no idea how the Byzantines made their padded armour. The sources are open to speculation and various interpretations. I don't think there are any physical extant examples. Any attempt to use Byzantine padded armour as a source for Roman padded armour is simply using speculation to justify further speculation.
Ok Thanks for that, you learn something new every day.
Conor Boyle
Legio XX VV (Legion ireland)
Legio XX VV (Legion ireland)