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The concrete ring works well and is just about the easiest to install, just fill with gravel to the required height. Needs something to hang on things, here it is usually a rebar contraption (some are fairly thought out and work well).

Can I have a translation please, even AIs were fighting over the meaning. :)

Most sources refer togas as formal wear, various kinds of tunics apparently were the norm. Romans seem to have been mostly quite practical people and a toga is not really very practical. As a first guess pouches of various kind.

Apparently Lindisfarne was not the first but yes other raids are known here and there starting about a century before. Records seem to be slightly incomplete thereabouts. Yes they were and most Englishmen as well. The nordic germanic tribes from Danes upwards developed into Vikings though...

Vikings were a much later phenomenon, I thought that all of Misty Isles would know that having been the target of one of the first viking raids. Apparently they used still the small utility knife even though they had a few types of folders. Maybe the usage was something like today, based on...

I think the early folders all had a solid or near so handle with just a groove for the blade.

I did some light research: First an AI search: why were folding knives originally made Folding knives were originally made as compact, portable utility tools so people could safely carry a blade for everyday tasks like eating, cutting materials, and grooming, without the danger and...

That is a slightly solipsistic statement, now how about telling us, all others what that conclusion is! I am not agreeing with the claim that a folder is easier to carry in a non existent pocket. In an existing pocket certainly and I have some reason to believe that that is nowadays a valid...

Definitely not, they had a lot less to choose from, with totally different world views. I agree that many human traits were equal to today but the the surroundings were not.

In 500 BC pockets would not exist for the next 1700 years, pouches and bags did but locks in folders would not be invented for some while so no difference actually a fixed blade in sheath would be safer. If your knives have a tendency to slip out of their sheaths you should have that fixed. I...

I wonder ... no laws are even near similar cultural conventions and habits are very different storage was not a problem then and not really today fixed blade knife in a proper sheath is not more unsafe than a folder So citations about what?

Remember the starting point, 2500 years ago, most arguments taken from today do not apply.

So nobody has come up with a reason as to why folders originated. Don't we have any historians here? After reading through I have come to a preliminary conclusion that status and novelty might have been the reason. Never underestimate people's vanity. :)

Can't quote the last paragraph but there lies the difference, puukko has never been considered primarily a weapon it is a tool. Hundred years ago much more so than today when politicians have caught the weapon contagion from somewhere.

I don't know the UK market but I understand that Buffalo uses pile. (correct?)

Just a note that often a pile fabric is better as a mid layer than a fleece, more thickness.

Sorry, I guess I was thinking my own early primary school. ;)

Maybe they just had one spice mixture that was used on everything.

That makes sense.

You want to retain the bulk but reduce weight, the thickness of the layer beneath the outer is the main cause of insulation properties, one wants "dead air thickness".