No, it really wouldn't. Many, many, many craftsmen try to produce consistent, even products by hand. Every single time, when they don't use a jig and measure a hundred times over, it comes out far, far less even than modern machines.

In addition, I seriously doubt horse hairs/etc would across hundreds of them all be perfectly straight and consistent to the point where the binding pattern would be clearly visible at the tips. Even if they were, I'd bet crafting it by hand would disturb them enough to floof it out a bit by the end of production.

In either case, it's very silly to make something look so obviously modern, even if it were possible to make back then. They're selling an image, and this image screams "modern production".

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, fair point about the horse hairs at least. But I also can't help but feel like people might have had all kinds of strange ideas about how they want things to look in the past, and a lot of it would probably surprise us if we had the chance to go back and check. So I still struggle to see things like this as genuinely upsetting. Had it been a proper blunder like imitating a roman armour or something I would have agreed much more, but taking some creative license with what ancient Greece looked like I feel should be expected.