The Armour Archive

Arne Koets

maybe of interest, though not looking at english materials is Geibigs work (and typology)

Arne Koets

spelling wasn't much codified either. i would imagine that horses from a different region might be referred to by their origin, but i only know of much later examples. horses are often only refered to as 'mare' or by their colour. (a bit like saying 'my car' as opposed to 'my volvo 940 built in 1998...

Arne Koets

Roman tereschenko made some amasing faces on similar helms. Can be found on facebook. Speaks decent english, works in hardened carbon steel.

Arne Koets

There are accounts (european) that differentiate between iron and steel mail. I'd really like to see some destructive testing of better mail.

Arne Koets

My bosses' wife killed a wild boar with a spear. Dog handlers in germany still sometimes carry them. The dogs are a key part. You need good hounds and be ready to lose one... It is also very dangerous for them. Most boar tend to hit you in the shins or calves, but upper leg could happen. Greaves wou...

Arne Koets

another reason why rawhide would be great, is that it can be worked cold by wetting it and drying it (at first) straight on the horse, thereby greatly reducing the complexity of the moulds... i hope...

Arne Koets

the originals are from the met itself i think.

26.235.1-3 are the inventory numbers

Arne Koets

Now before you all start saying it: i did try to search for previous threads and although i assume some of the info might be out there in the years of AA, i couldn't find it. The thing is, I'm contemplating making a horse armour out of hide materials similar to the pieces shown in the met exhibition...

Arne Koets

Not a photo, but hey:

Http://Vimeo.com/kaoshistoricalmedia/stwendel

Arne Koets

one bit of criticism: codpiece is usually badly attached, but that takes 5 mins to re do. if you used lovers knots on the codpiece there is no probs in the toilet brakes

Arne Koets

i have worn two pairs in the last 7(?) years. I wear them under armour, when riding, when wrestling, running, climbing, even swimming. I have worn them A LOT! there were years i wore them at least 3 days a week for 9 months of the year. They are still going strong. (few marks, but what can you expec...

Arne Koets

Apparently making the metal hot and rubbing cowhorn into it melts the horn into a thick patina. It is very durable, thick and tough, is more scratch resistent and matte.

Jezz smith told me that.

Arne Koets

Link to the last article/ book? I'd be very interested! On stopping power: it's about tge Chance that someone drops... Different weapons give a different chance. So it can make a difference. If you get hit by a .50 BMG you are much more likely to drop then a .22, yet i'm sure there are plenty of pos...

Arne Koets

Breeding spotted and whiteborns is somehow genetically very complicated. A lot of breeding programmes saw trouble because if it. I don't knowmuch about genetics, but i'm told it's hard to keep them

Arne Koets

The original lances i handled in holland, from the 17th century were very long, but still very capable of delivering a serious strike.

Arne Koets

From my experience it is possible to seriously move a man on foot with a lance, even when it breaks. Secondary use would be not expected, and they were expecting to break or lose tge lance in the hit. The hirses will trample and kick and bite and barge the displaced formation and a secondary weapon ...

Arne Koets

Me Also jouster: I think it is obligatory reading for anybody interested in the subject, especially the sources themselves, but the introductory half is also pretty good. I only disagree with one or two tiny things ( comment about a foto of a saddle), he makes a goid argument for all the rest. It gi...

Arne Koets

The reason the dutch call a grey a 'schimmel' is that it looks like there are spots of fungus spreading on the horse. My grey looks exactly like the picture, he is definately not spotted but grey

Arne Koets

Chef, you're right, although officially the colour is called leopard in english and tigerpaint in german ( tigerschecke)

The hair of the leopard actually grows in different lengths, even. Appaloosas are a spacific breed, really.

Arne Koets

oh and barbs tend to be eally small, lusos and andas are consideably bigger. Even in barock times barbs were known as the best warhorses but ugly and small.

Arne Koets

barbs and iberian horses are VERY close and the basis of many breeds. of course selection is a big factor. lusitanos and andalusians tend to have more expressive movements, barbs tend to have stronger backs especially then andalusians... barbs are sturdier... but these differences might have hardly ...

Arne Koets

i suppose the easiest way to explain it is that arabians are kinda made of rubber. the arabian is a great horse for endurance. give enought raining and they will do all sorts of stuff you wouldn't trust a average girl at a riding school ever to achieve. So i don't doubt your comment. What i am talki...

Arne Koets

does anyone know the outcome?

Arne Koets

btw the picture of the henry VIII armour... the figure of the horse doesn't fit the armour: it is too big (bulky) the royal armouries claim their horse armour used to fit Fleur (one of he jousting horses in the stable) bt that was not really that true... because they never put it on the actual horse...

Arne Koets

chef: Barbs and arabians are definately very distinct, and were known in europe to be so from at least the 17th c, but probably MUCH earlier. barbs abd arabians are amost as different as they can be. front leg proportions, shoulder, neck, head profile, backs, leg size, character, haunches, tail sett...

Arne Koets

OK, here we go! every horse has a mommy and a daddy, so every horse goes back way beyond the medieval period, the questions are: is it recorded? were they selected for a specific purpose? selection is definately older than records. selection creates a 'type' and records then make the 'breed'. (Murge...

Arne Koets

I suppose it comes down to three things in the first place: -budget -styles you want to do -period and area you like. Garnitures are all very nice and well, but even at the time they were viewed as cumbursome and excessive, in that the vision slit is still the weak point. Also a garniture is only a ...

Arne Koets

of course historical tents were positively massive as they were used to house many men or horses. The companies of the ordinance in Burgundy (overlaps the period just) were kown for their lavish equipment and are said to only have had 400 tents and 350 sheds (or was that the other way around) and th...

Arne Koets

Ben took some more awesome pictures.... eh ben?

Arne Koets

BTW to get to Delft, get the train! from Amsterdam it's an easy connection, not too expensive, one of the more reliable connections and the Legermuseum is about 700 yards from the Delft (centraal) trainstation. saves you huge parking fees, endless traffic jams etc.

Arne Koets

how do these american all know this stuff about delft? The legermuseum will be in Delft only until this summer (ish) and then close to move and merge with the airforcemuseum in Soesterberg. I don't know for sure, but i think most of the medieval stuff will go off display then. until then the legermu...

Arne Koets

i saw a photo of toby taking the praying pose with an original gauntlet, albeit some italian export gauntlet or similar, it was one with hideous fluting on the cuff, but had a similar shape to the english ones. I'm not sure you couldn't get those poses to work in the english styles

Arne Koets

jezz is amasing!

Arne Koets

historical shields weren't layered (yeah, gesso and stuff, but not the wood) they might have been steamed at first in one direction and then carved into shape... the curve is usually VERY pronounced, maybe 90+ degr. also ecranches are VERY big, Met one is something like 54x43x18cm and 2,5 cm thick.....

Arne Koets

i think we can have a bit more emphasis on the practical side of the rolls: -they work great as stop ribs, as mentioned - they can even work in lieu of an arret when used with am arret de lance (leather/wood graper) when your arret de curass is not on for whatever reason. I think they are very funct...

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