Linen clad Etruscan warriors

[aligern]

https://www.academia.edu/1393274/Linen-clad_Etruscan_warriors

cited on TMP and interesting
Roy

[Duncan Head]

https://www.academia.edu/1393274/Linen-clad_Etruscan_warriors
cited on TMP and interesting

Cited on TMP by me 

It's a chapter from the Wearing the Cloak book which I reviewed for Slingshot, jointly with Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor, last year (or early this?).  It is a good read if you don't have the full book.

[aligern]

Apologies DuncanI plead  that I did it in a hurry and did not realise that you were Gurkan!
Roy

[Mark G]

Wtf is a gurkan, anyway?

[aligern]

Gurkhan........you can go look that up.
R

[Duncan Head]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkhan

[Mark G]

How modest of you

[Patrick Waterson]

Duncan is always modest. 

[Duncan Head]

Oh, I wouldn't go that far.

But I do at least try to be consistently obscure.

[Justin Swanton]

The pdf reminds me of this other invaluable resource on clothing (and arms) in the Roman army:

(sometimes I cannot help myself)

[Andreas Johansson]

Having t-shirts, all more-or-less the same size, with nominal sizes ranging from M to XXL, I've got some sympathy for Obelix.

(I haven't got any of the mythical FB and WG sizes tho.)

[Dave Beatty]

I recently attended a presentation by a guy who constructed linen armor and shot arrows at it.  Pretty interesting.  The armor was actually more effective than similar thicknesses of bronze.  Check out his website at http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html