The Armour Archive

RandallMoffett

Jehan,

I'll have to see if I can finish my new helmet before Crossroads... and if I will have room for armour after everything else.

RPM

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This is my friend's FB page for his pottery.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Royal-Po ... 1029221507

I will have to upload some pictures or something of us. Are you on FB?

RPM

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Jehan, My wife does it that way for the hose. I know your pain on shoes. Nicole and I started making our own shoes years ago when we found it was too expensive to keep buying shoes for our kids mostly. Sadly our sewing machine only handles light stuff. We plan on getting a heavier machine someday to...

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You know Wade I almost like these ones more than the more common ones! They look very nice. Thanks for the great pictures.

RPM

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Russ, For kids clothing we tend to do for the boys tunics and girls longer dresses. William has had fitted hose since he was about 4 or 5. We made some leggings that looked hose like for him when he was younger to keep his legs warm but as before 2 they have long tunics/dresses for them not really v...

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Jehan, We tend to use water when we cook so I'll plan on bringing some and likely a means of moving it as well but no worries. Our tent should be under 20'x10' and we may bring a pavilion without walls to use as a sun shade. Will look into the bear stuff. Russ, We'll bring some games and stuff. RPM

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So how hard do these get? Have you had time to see if hey maintain their rigidity? I am wondering if you cannot get these to be a color that is very discreet for hidden armour as well and plastic often stands out. Might be good for all those early period people.

RPM

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I know this would not be period and cheating but would this work for pouring pewter into? it hits upto 500 degrees F?

http://www.goplanetearth.com/molds_flexible_other.html

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Good layout. Sat images look like a nice area. Wish I had a cart or something. I suspect for cooking and such we will go through a great deal of water. Might have to look into what I can make. We might be a few days late to the party so I hope there is room left for us. I like the look of the Southw...

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RT, WE do have other evidence of leather armour and the one that was just found is not even for sure hardened but was for sure splinted. I am interested in this as low profile armour as well but the danger is people trying to make it historic when it likely is not. And Dan is pretty much dead on fro...

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Diglach,

Lets not start that again! You will open the gates of hell saying stuff like that around here.

RPM

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Thomas,

Is it possible that the method you are speaking of is more modern after the mines depleted their natural deposits? Is there any detailed examinations on objects made over the period in question to prove that one way or the other as I suspect cast iron would leave different markings.

RPM

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Jehan,

Looks good. Will bring a water purifier. I do not drink so I promise not to get into your stash

Thanks for the info. Good to know the exact site as well. Looks great. Is that entire area forest?

RPM

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Jehan,

What is water like there? Do we need purifiers?

RPM

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Not sure we are speaking of the same one but the issue Mac is addressing I believe is the shift from in the 14th of having under-lapping plates where in the 15th as Tobias's harness is over lapping plates up. Seems to be a change in design over the 50 or so years.

RPM

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Some great info as always Derian! Will have to try them out. Plumbing soldier.... interesting.

RPM

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Derian, Soapstone. Brilliant I had thought of that. My wife used to cast in soapstone with pewter. Could I ask what depth? Is it 2mm on the one side of the cast? Looks like about 8x2" or so in size? Thanks for the info. Wish I had some of you moneyers closer by where I am. Would love to watch how pe...

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Derian, Do you have more info on the coin blank making than in the Pdf on coin making? It says you roll them and earlier you mentioned casting them in 2mm thick sheets. I am interested in this process but not sure of the nuts and bolts. Do you use something like a cookie sheet to pour the pewter the...

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Well Bertus that is indeed illuminating. But does make confusion as to what the other likely mail arm armour is then??? perhaps slippery terms is playing a part as well. I am wondering all sorts of things now. 1st we see the mail and pair of plates combo still but sleeveless habergeon on some but th...

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mid 14th century upper-class.

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So I am looking for some objects that are living history quality. Some wooden spools for sewing, a sewing awl, some hand towels, table linens and such. Does any know of a place that makes these?

Thanks,

RPM

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Matt,

Well done sir!

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Wade, Sure. I am heading to CA for a funeral so it might be a few days until I can dig out some of my England Notes but my measurements were indeed hardly methodical. I also measured of a ton of things. Tassets and armour bits from Rhodes, a few bascinets. All sorts of things. The issue is the time ...

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Tasha,

I think that makes sense. It is interested that it was that heavy but not surprising. If a grown man had a 12lb one that would indeed be a pretty hefty type of armour in its own right. Would there be enough room under the sleeves for plate armour if it were scaled down for a child?

RPM

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AS,

I have seen the same thing with medieval example. Some mail was more open and would be more susceptible. The issue is that not all mail is the same. Some are far more tight. The Wallace has a habergeon that is very dense weave for example.

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RandallMoffett

' It was even in thickness, the real ones would not have been. They would be thicker at the top, and thinner near the bottom." Wade has it as far as I can tell. I have a few measurements. They run from well over 3mm down to right about 1mm on the lower edge. What do you want to know? The Lyle is ind...

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Very nice James! You all look great.

RPM

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James,

A good point. It may also have been used alone if for public parade use. My main question is why would we assume thick padding is an indication of outer or inner textile based armour. If there is evidence to that point I'd like to see it and use it.

RPM

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Kon, Well played. I did not even notice the misused word. Funny. "And both of these are bloody sourceless..." So far this seems generally true for all the assumptions. I did not have time to look through any more illustrations but my gut feeling is that artists tend to like drawing one more than the...

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Tasha, Very interested in this comment. 'it's really stiffly and thickly padded' as an explanation to it being an over armour. Why do you think this? Ed II's aketon is around 2.3lbs of cotton from the wardrobe roll of 1323 and the Paris roll from 1311 states 3.1lbs for aketons. Ed II's was for sure ...

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Jehan,

We have at least 5 but maybe 7.

RPM

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would love to see a summary of this "Except I would heavily disagree with this. A lot of people think they know what German armour is, but the style found on the lower Rhineland is as different as that in Saxony or Bavaria. The style of armour between the Bishopric of Utrecht, the County of Holland ...

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Dan, Sure we have them. We have a number of people stated to have been killed specifically by arrows. One of the most famous being James of Scotland at Flodden but we do have a good number of clear instances of men being killed. Now this is good for the best armoured being killed by arrows but bad i...

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James, 'It just occurred to me - I hope this doesn't come across as snarky - that the French had had since Crecy to figure out how thick to make a breastplate. Then de Wavrin says that many of them had very long mail shirts under their armour to make sure they were arrow proof. Being dismounted, the...

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