The Armour Archive

James B.

Thanks Len; looks like there are two arm harnesses in that thread with the sliding rivets.

James B.

Looks good, I really like those knee cops.

James B.

Which one do you call the third lame Matt? The one on the vambrace or the rearbrace?

James B.

Swete wrote:I love that stool, James! So effective yet simple to make! Is it a period model?

It is like the Viking Lund stool but with beefy square legs instead of round legs. Jeff J helped me make it.

James B.

There is a piece of an extant braies girdle in the Museum of London collection, I believe if is a wide girdle with 4 sets of holes and a leather thong threaded through the holes that was attached to a ring broach. You could adjust the length of the leather thong to tighten the hold on the hosen tha...

James B.

re-enactmentsupplies wrote:The fingers are eighteen gauge and the main hand part is sixteen gauge.

That would be more in line with many of the gauntlets used in the SCA.

James B.

Cedric the Tall wrote:18ga wont cut it for SCA. Nice lines though.

Says who? There is no regulation on gauntlet thicknesses; most finger gauntlets people are using have 18ga fingers.

James B.

I made a table to store some of my table top wood working tools I rarely use this weekend: http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww284/Flonzy/Workshop/P1010333.jpg The table is made of some scrape particle board I got at home depot, I think the whole thing cost me $20 to make including the 4x4 legs. It...

James B.

There is a piece of an extant braies girdle in the Museum of London collection, I believe if is a wide girdle with 4 sets of holes and a leather thong threaded through the holes that was attached to a ring broach. You could adjust the length of the leather thong to tighten the hold on the hosen that...

James B.

Here is a late 15th c pair of bikini style braies. http://www.uibk.ac.at/urgeschichte/inst ... c-2010.pdf

James B.

Linings would also strengthen area with points in them. The St Johns painting does not seem to have a large lining at all, maybe just the waist band.

James B.

Nice one Mac, you can clearly see side seams too which will change my pattern making.

On dating isn't the Carherine of Cleves hours dated to 1440?

James B.

Indeed. When you see braes in later century art--for example, the sword-and-buckler sparring partners in the Tacuinum Sanitatis --the braes are rather like boxer briefs, and quite tight, maybe bias-cut. Unfortunately, no one sells those off-the-peg that I'm aware of. Most of our, ahem, more generou...

James B.

http://www.tentsmiths.com/

James B.

Cool I will head down after the 30 also I an interested in the effort you guys are making either way.

James B.

Tent Smiths is a tent/pavilion making company like Panther: http://www.tentsmiths.com/

James B.

The oval is using two 3x3 poles with a 4x4 cut into a tapered wedge shape that is 3 inches to match the poles for the ridgepole. I use a 4x4 cut into a hexagon for my tents. The canvas is made by tentsmiths. What I can say from my observation is this your ropes will need to flare out from the eaves ...

James B.

Incidentally; the hosen of the hanged men in the detail from the St George have leather (?) soles. Don't think I didn't make note of that; I am writing some documentation on early 15th century clothing and I am talking about the footed hosen tend in that period. That is why I recently spotted these...

James B.

Not sure how this explains the pictures of the tents rolling away without rope but still keeping shape? But I'd love to know their evidence on it as I have found so little evidence for the inside I would be hard pressed to prove one was done over the other. Just to address this more, most of us fee...

James B.

Ropes do all the work Crows feet: 14 foot (I believe) round single center pole: http://www.replications.com/greys/Image%20Gallery/2010/ColonialPlantation/Lara/Full/2010-CP-20.jpg My 18 foot round: http://www.replications.com/greys/Image%20Gallery/2004/MTT/full/IMGP0742.jpg I think this one is 20x14 ...

James B.

Mac

Looks like to me the fellow in the last sketch and on the right in the painting have some sort of single point on the side hosen design versus being in the front like earlier designs. They appear in both to lace into the side of the doublet.

James B.

Living history groups vary in rules but I could advise what La Belle and Lord Grey's looks for in a tent but these are from observations not any written down standards. First there is a preference for the quality of tentsmiths over Panther. The canvas and construction is superior in a tentsmiths ten...

James B.

I wonder have you guys given any thought to putting events together in America versus just putting a team together to head to Russia?

James B.

Here is the St Sebastian from the Catherine of Cleves hours. (you have to go to the page and click about 6 pics forward) m His hosen appear to be tied to the waistband (drawstring, I think) of his breas. Yes that being dated to 1440. I cannot tell what the hosen are tied to in the "hanged man&...

James B.

I am going next month.

James B.

I know of several people who've dropped off the face of the earth and out of ALL society due to addictions to videogames. Evercrack, WoW, Sims, just to name a few. They funny thing in these WWII games have had the opposite effect; WWII groups have had more young men join since these games hit the m...

James B.

Boy do I really need to work on my shop. Mine is in an unfinished part of the basement and it still needs power.

James B.

Oh nice Mac you can see a keeper on the belt too. Here is a woodcut I saw at the National Gallery of Art a few years ago where St Sebastian's braies also have the open areas for point to come from but he also has a girdle in the loops instead of a drawstring: http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww284...

James B.

Thanks for the pictures Mac (well at least of the belt

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I made a belt like yours last night with vegetable tanned leather, a 14th century brass buckle from Thor Thor's Hammer, and a set of Wisby ring broaches from Gaukler.

James B.

Looking good.

James B.

Here is the problem with this sort of debate, what it boils down to is whether or not you have historical context or are you just making assumptions. The leather armor in the Viking age debate (hinted at in the first post) is a good example. There is no supporting historical evidence for any such ar...

James B.

Nice AEiric; how thick is the leather on the Roman bag? Mine are made of goatskin and are super soft and will not stand on their own.

James B.

I hold my hosen up with a belt and a pair of ring brooches. The brooches pass through holes on the belt, and remain attached to the belt. The tops of the hosen get pulled through the brooches. This works well. The system is very adjustable. Ring brooches were found in similar positions in many of t...

James B.

All reenactment needs some extrapolation however there needs to be some evidence in which to base your extrapolation on you cannot say a lack of evidence is proof. Combining images, records, and similar items to make an item that may not have an extant example is one thing, to simply state they must...

James B.

The biggest problem I have is when I use the bathroom; when you retie the braies you have to retie the legging to get everything to sit right again. On way around this is to used a belt to tie your hosen too instead of the underwear itself, this is known as a braised girdle. I am starting to go this...

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