Discussion for Watch Cloak on the Wiki

[caedmon]

I have added Andy's original Watch cloak tutorial to the Wiki.

http://ranger.budgetauthenticity.org/in ... atch_CLoak

This is the official thread to discuss Andy's Watch cloak.

[Greg]

That cloak is and always has been legit.

[Eledhwen]

Modified sagum, really. Yep.

Eledhwen

[caedmon]

Modified sagum, really. Yep.

Eledhwen

My image of a Sagum is the classic Roman legionnaire's cloak, an uncut rectangle pinned at the right shoulder. Am I wrong here?

[Eledhwen]

The sagum varied over time. Best known was a rectangle with a hole cut in the center. Later a circle. The paludamentum was a trapazoidal hoodless cloak. The Gaulish Cloak I mentioned before was a trimmed rectangle with a hood, basically two rectangles, folded over, hood stitched down the top and the bottom corners trimmed. There were a host of others. Almost all of them based on the rectangle.

Eledhwen