Eventually, it is new technologies such as this that will answer all our questions about the usage of glue with ancient textile armor. Will the physical evidence match the literary and artistic evidence available? I'm 100% sure they will find glue impregnated into linen. We can then debate what those linen artifacts were used for.
http://www.morana-rtd.com/e-preservation...azurek.pdf
"An alternative explanation might be that there had been several items of armour in the bathhouse, and that among them there may [my emphasis] have been, as already suggested above, one or more items principally of linen, perhaps even a linen corselet."
I can not find this quote in my copy of Wearing the Cloak.
http://www.morana-rtd.com/e-preservation...azurek.pdf
"An alternative explanation might be that there had been several items of armour in the bathhouse, and that among them there may [my emphasis] have been, as already suggested above, one or more items principally of linen, perhaps even a linen corselet."
I can not find this quote in my copy of Wearing the Cloak.
Joe Balmos
