08-01-2011, 05:17 PM
Quote:Nice belt plates and nice belt!Is there any more on this possible textile backing in the intervening time? Anything published that anyone knows of? Would it have been textile squares behind the plates only, or could the entire belt have been made of textile rather than leather? Could it even be that it's a textile inner revealed after the leather outer decayed away?
My friend Jose Manuel Pastor has seen the original belt piece and says me that the backing of the plate is not another metal plate, it's something like fabric (linen?), preserved with the mineralized corrosion of the belt plate itself.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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