Glued Linen Armour- a simple test

[PMBardunias]

I presume the paper doesn't identify the material exactly? Dried corn starch isn't going to do it for sure...

I haven't had time to really get into the paper yet, but it appears that the trick is binding nanoscale silicon particles to the kevlar fibres. This may sound beyond the 5th c greeks, and perhaps is was, but they had access to fine alkali clays that perhaps could be used to do something along these lines with more primative materials. Come to think of it, doesn't whiteware pottery become popular within a few decades of the popularity of the T-Y corselet? It would explain the white T-Y.

This is out of my little pool of knowledge, but one of the aythors is only one county over from me, so I'll see if he has an opinion and let you know.