The Armour Archive

James B.

Mac wrote:

Is that hooking onto a waist griddle? I am looking for something historical to hold up maille leggings.

James B.

Most early chests don't have that leg style they are more like 6 board chests where the sides make the legs. In those cases a rectangular hole is cut into the sides and a tongue on the bottom and the rest is set flush and nailed together or use a rabbit. Hinges on the sides also hold it together. ht...

James B.

Brass at least, quilted or solid silver or gold depending on wealth. Pewter belt parts are not that common, most pewter buckles are found in shoe find there are some exceptions.

James B.

http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/todsfoundry/studs.htm

James B.

Die gotischen Truhen der Lüneburger Heideklöster: Entwicklung - Konstruktion - Gestaltung Is the book, its has mostly 13th c and up chests but a nice section on 12th c stuff too. It is 100% in German but the book is filled with pictures and diagrams of construction methods and examples. Fantastic bo...

James B.

Griffin what details are you interested in? Looking on the outside gives us the general shape but not much in the way of internal construction methods. There is a German book on chests that gives the details of joints and construction.

James B.

I have a Jack that is 10 layers thick and made one 25 layers thick. They are substantial but not as much as a metal CoP naturally. Personally I would not use it for SCA because I don't liked bruises on my body but YMMV

James B.

Here is someones article on casein glue, I was looking at it for my shield project too: http://mymedievallife.wordpress.com/201 ... sein-glue/

James B.

I would be interested in some documentation on rawhide being used on the front of the shield if you have a link of sorts?...and I take it the rawhide was then painted? It's not that I don't believe it, just wanna read stuff ^^ Raw hide is often suspected but the leather is so beat up its hard to pr...

James B.

Wow was it really that long ago?

James B.

Wow cool I had not noticed buttoning sleeves on effigies of aketons (under armor) before. I knew about this guy with the buttoning front http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniatures/original/2-22.jpg. I know several French effigies from the 1320s are clearly laces, up to the elbow in one case. ...

James B.

I would warn of one thing, fashion changes in 1350. If you look at art from that time frame arming cotes up to 1350 are straight, a rectangular shape. After 1350 they become fitted to the body just as the kirtle does.

1348:

James B.

I will try and crack a book tonight if I get a chance. I am painting part of my house.

James B.

As well I was planning to add a lame at the bottom of the poleyn as shown on several 1320s to 1340s effigies and artwork but not sure if I should rivet it on steel to steel or add leather straps to join the lame to the poleyn? Example of what I am talking about- http://effigiesandbrasses.com/monume...

James B.

We should avoid cookie cutter but we have a combination of historical examples and art of the time we can extrapolate other designs from; just making stuff up should be avoided if looking correct is your goal.

James B.

Bob Here is what the Swedish site had on it basically: http://urd.priv.no/pics/viking/his-varld-trousers-270.jpg Info on here: http://urd.priv.no/viking/bukser.html The dots represent the fact is a long straight piece in the middle. I used 2 or 3 yards (I want to say 2) of material and used a runnin...

James B.

Paladin74 wrote:Anyone getting setup for Agincourt 2015? I hope to make it there myself.

A number of La Belle folks are talking about it including myself.

James B.

In three more years it is the 600 year anniversary. I will be standing in the battle field lossing arrows on Frenchmen.

James B.

Visiting exhibits here are often the same, cannot take images. The Staffordshire Hoard at the Nat Geo museum was that way; even the museum could not take images.

James B.

Why not ask them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wulfheode ... 3802621780

I have found them to be friendly and quick to answer questions.

Also remember they do early Anglo Saxon not later; what they do may not apply in the 10th or 11th century.

James B.

Looks like the British Museum and not the Museum of London to me.

Char - odd they told me pictures were cool in 2006

James B.

Splint armor and a coat pf plates can be made by anyone with a few tools. If you go around 1360 you could also make a padded coat armor to cover the entire upper body.

James B.

La Belle doing 1415; no images of the armor on in this case but some images of it on the tables:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 181&type=3

http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww28 ... TA%202012/

James B.

I have some scans of a Danish publication of that find; some neat stuff in there.

James B.

Have not seen that one before, thanks.

James B.

Neat details on that painting.

James B.

It might look like there is no seem or visible stitching but the originals have visible stitching. Some are whip stitched at the edge and some are either a stab or running stitch at the edge.

James B.

For some reason the IIS on my providers server is not automatically using index.html as the home page; I added that to the link it should work now. Provider still needs to fix the issue

James B.

I was more worried about sweat being soaked into the padding and rotting it out from below. As my wife is a spinster I've listened to her rant about mixing protein and cellouse based fibers many a time. (what cleans one destroys the other and vise versa so a mixed garment is hard to clean thoroughl...

James B.

Here are the images I am talking about; Flemish 1475: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k26/Bwaze/Arming%20doublets/LeJouvencelbyJeandeBueil1475ToursFrance1.jpg http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k26/Bwaze/Arming%20doublets/LeJouvencelbyJeandeBueil1475ToursFrance2.jpg Early 16th C I beleive http://i8...

James B.

Thomas Powers wrote:One other aspect: how are you going to clean it? Mixed materials can pose problems with modern methods---unless you are willing to *pay*!

By hand like they did assuming you bother to wash a garment that gets covered in greasy armor.

James B.

There are Flemish paintings with mean wearing what look like velvet doublets with ball shoulders, leather strips are on the arms and body, and there are arming points in the arms. They do not appear to be jacks or have other quilting than the leather attachments.

James B.

I am not saying three point goes away but vertical hanging becomes the most common seen in art in the 1370 straight into the 1440s; especially in knightly effigies.

James B.

Extant early 14th century scabbards are the all leather version we started talking about in this thread. There are then 3 extant later (mid) 14th century scabbards I know of, 2 Spanish, one is English. The English one is just the silver fittings but all three are the three point style which dominate...

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Re: New 1340s Harness

Re: Gambesons 1340-1380

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Re: The authenticity paradox

Re: Rus (baggy britches) pants patterns?

Re: IWTB an English Man-at-Arms at Agincourt

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Re: Pictures from Museum of London

Re: Anglo-Saxon belt question

Re: Pictures from Museum of London

Re: Building the 14th century on a budget

Re: IWTB an English Man-at-Arms at Agincourt

Re: 1370 Italian scabbard.

Re: 1370 Italian scabbard.

Re: braies question

Re: Attaching guards and wide bands of fabric

Re: Is this in any way historical?

Re: Is this in any way historical?

Re: Is this in any way historical?

Re: Is this in any way historical?

Re: Is this in any way historical?

Re: 1370 Italian scabbard.

Re: 1370 Italian scabbard.