About this image

To see fine details, right-click the image and hit "open image as a new tab". From there, you can zoom in to get a sense of the grain. I've included shots of the clasp for reference. In this example, I'm using an Amidianborn 2k texture-replacer of the vanilla iron shield mesh, so you can get a better sense of the overall resolution. 


So this is the result of "upscaling" the original texture I used (and really, really, liked) from the original release. That texture was 1k to begin with, but made sorta 2k by balancing the light/dark areas, and tiling it x4 into a sorta 2k texture, by the time of release. 

Upscaling that texture again (to an X16 resolution from the original 1k texture) showed some repetitive patterns that didn't look good. 

So, I went back  and did a lot of tiling, sharpening and blending until I could get that "2k"into a sort-of-4k resolution. There's still some repetition to this new x16 texture, but the dirt and grime applied on top hides it really well.  I think it turned out really fantastic, actually! (though it might need some additional tweaking). 

On the right, you see two  zoomed-out examples of a mesh using the exact same color-hue. The top one is the new x16 rough texture fabric, and the lower is the version that originally shipped with the mod. The grime and dirt-patterns are different, but even so, I hope you can see the stark difference between the two.  

It's a little difficult to work with these types of textures, because you want to conserve a lot of the rough, big texture of the fabric, and when you get up to x16 resolution, a lot of those get "automatically" turned into a finer-grain. One solution to that is to - once you have a very sharp and fine-grained texture - is to distort it further with a good vector-pattern that adds back the big areas of light and dark that makes a fabric look very roughly-woven. 

This could definitely be something to experiment in the coming days, but as an early "contender" for the rough-spun texture, this is already quite promising. Could very well serve as a great base for introducing simple patterns on top of it. 

I'm currently looking at old camel wool fabric to get a sense of the heavy, naturally-dyed coloring that those types of cloaks and "gowns" had. 

I mentioned this page in my last image-submission, but it's a really interesting resource about historical "blanket scarf" clothing as worn throughout history (as far back as the iron-age). The page has lots of pictures and some of them look really fantastic, especially the dark fur cloaks that end at the calf (makes them look like a forest-mage in the style of Charles Vess, or a fantasy-esque take on Jean Giraud's work). 

http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/06/gown.html