It should hold my wallet and phone (the phone is about 4.5" tall, the wallet is about 4" wide, and together they're a bit over an inch thick). I'd suggest adapting a motif from Bathilde's tunic:
It's about a century too late, but beggars can't be choosers. I prefer natural fibers (linen, wool, silk), but am not picky about how they are combined.
I don't know of any extant pouches from this period (and I haven't turned up any late Roman ones, either). Dress in Anglo-Saxon England talks about ivory rings which may have been used to frame a pouch; at least one was covered in fabric. (Kentish fashion was probably fairly close to Merovingian fashion, and has the advantage that people write about it in English. Still wishing I knew some German!)
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http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/TunicBalthild.html
It's about a century too late, but beggars can't be choosers. I prefer natural fibers (linen, wool, silk), but am not picky about how they are combined.
I don't know of any extant pouches from this period (and I haven't turned up any late Roman ones, either). Dress in Anglo-Saxon England talks about ivory rings which may have been used to frame a pouch; at least one was covered in fabric. (Kentish fashion was probably fairly close to Merovingian fashion, and has the advantage that people write about it in English. Still wishing I knew some German!)