Glued Linen Armour- a simple test

[Matt Lukes]

This is going to sound repetitive, but the results from the testing I have done along with Prof. Greg Aldrete over the past two or more years were completely opposite to everything you claim.

<snip> How bizarre. I find it hard to believe that simply varying the quality of the cloth could produce such disparate results. FWIW I used 16 layers of fairly expensive tablecloth linen. I'll have to dig up the type of thread and weave.

Perhaps not so since your results were the opposite to mine too Dan...

The glues we used were rabbit glue, flaxseed glue, and modern PVA glue

Cool that you've participated in some testing too Scott I'm curious though- did you not encounter the same problem I did with the natural glues? Whether they work or not in ideal form I wouldn't have thought to be terribly significant if there is such seemingly fundamental flaw of protein glues as water solubility. Further to that, was the example you found wearing wasn't uncomfortable, etc., the PVA version or one of the natural glue pieces? And if it was one of the latter, was sweat not a problem afterall?