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How to make a Roman Legionnaires Tunic

How to make a Roman Legionnaires Tunic

Simple guide that explains how to realize the legionary's base suit, how to wear it, what materials use and a few advices to preserve the fabric (Available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations that I will introduce from time to time. The original and full version is available here.

Tunic color debate

Tunic color debate

It follows a series of pictorials, materials, literaries and practices evidences on two different theories about the color of tunic: the first one believes that both the soldiers wore under the armor tunics dyed red, the second instead it sustains that the legionaries had white tunics (undyed), while officers and centuriones red (Available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original and full version has been written by Matthew R.

Subarmalis vestis

Description of subarmalis, weared by legionnaire under the armour

The Latin term indicates a kind of tunic that doesn't cover the arms, to the miles it was a garment brought under the armor for protect the tunic and the body from the rubbing and the dirt produced by the lorica, above all for the oils and fats used to preserve the metal from the corrosion (available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original and full version is available here.

 

Pteruges

The pteruges, decorative skirts of leather or fabric strips weared under armour

Directly or less tied up to subarmalis, these mobile nastriformis ornaments with fringes applied in the ends, are seen to emerge in the shoulders and in the zone of the groin and they are often found in the statues of Roman soldiers that wear a lorica hamata or squamata, very rarely under the lorica segmentata (available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time.

Sagum vel paenula

Typical winter cloaks for legionnaires

How the soldiers protected themselves from the cold and from the rain: dressing the sagum or equivalently the paenula. It follows a brief description of these two types of winter cloaks, different for form and size (Available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original and full version is available here.

 

 

 

Fibula et focale

Fibula et focale

Finally after the guides that describe the principal garments of the legionary I have inserted this brief article that illustrates two objects often used by the soldier: the fibulae to gather tunics and cloaks and the focalia to protect the neck from the wearing out of the lorica (Available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original and full version is available here.

 

 

Caligae

Caligae, the classical footwears of the Roman army

These are the classical footwears of the Roman army, so solid that they were resistant to the incessant and gruelling marches that characterized the Legions and they were able to glue the feet to the ground, important thing during the fights (Available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original and full version is available here.

 

 

Utensils in use for legionaries

Utensils in use for legionaries

Some news about the utensils in use for legionaries, particularly dolabra and ligo, respectively pick and shovel. The archaeological finds show as every legionary was endowed with these tools and the representations withdraw him intent to use them in the daily life. The original and full version was written by Matthew R. Amt and is available here.

The balteus: introduction

The balteus: introduction

The balteus or cingulum was the military belt, a required item of equipment and iin various kinds and forms. In in this article it is introduced and described (full version is available in the Italian Section). This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original and full version is written by Matthew Amt, and is available here.

Apron and handy hints for balteus

Apron and handy hints for balteus

In this second article about Roman military belt, called balteus, I will discuss on apron, a sort of garment that covers primarily the front of the body (full version is available in the Italian Section) and on practical hints on tinning and assemblage of the plates. This page instead contains the changes and the innovations (towards the original) that will be introduced from time to time. The original version is written by Matthew Amt, and is available here.

 

 

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