The Armour Archive

lorenzo2

My wife made Greek garb of the type that has a clasp at the shoulder when she breast feed our two girls at SCA events. This seemed to work well. She also made another Greek garment that drapes over the shoulders, not sure of the name, that was used to cover the baby during the feeding. Perhaps you c...

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This posting appears to have been placed in the wrong forum. It would be more appropriate to move it to the general one. It is not polite to others to post the same question in multiple forums.

lorenzo2

OK, we hate you. However, we would hate you a lot less if you would post some more pics

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Your best option is to take on the persona of a man while on the field. Wear mens clothing and armor and use a man's name. Off the field dress as a woman and assume a woman's persona. I would be surprised if very many groups would not allow this option.

lorenzo2

It appears there were some simultaneous posts rendering some of my remarks obsolete. I appologize if they are confusing since several posts appeared between mine and the message I was replying to.

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Your question about why we accept the modern scientific data over iconographic data that is contrary is easy to answer. When there appears to be a conflict between iconography and scientific data we accept the latter except in extraordinary circumstances. In other words, it would be extraordinary if...

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Saint, Please present evidence that the individuals for hom specific manuscripts were made were 1) warriors 2) had tastes rooted in realism rather than idealism. My understanding from my study of art is that symbolism and fantasy are consistantly displayed in almost every image. That being the case,...

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saint; By your logic the numerous depictions of Saints performing supernatural actions, angels, witches, etc. should also be taken "seriously". Medieval iconography, with the possible exception of some portrature and tomb effigies had the purpose of story telling. Putting the actors in contemporary ...

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Just to complete Jehan's train of logic, Aristotle's works were well known during the middle ages and formed a part of the churches veiw on the earth centered universe. Now it is possible that you can find evidence that some people thought the world was flat. But it was not the prevailing view. The ...

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Polar bear is 100% right on the money. I have done a few jewelry projects including lost wax casing of a 14th cent style ring after one in the victoria and albert museum. Its not that hard if you are willing to do a few trial runs in silver (a cheap way to learn, gold is too expensive to make mistak...

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Very nice work, especially the armet. At last a web site that does justice to the quality of your work! It will be fun to see some of the in process shots for some of the finished pieces shown.

lorenzo2

Wow! great project. That must be a really great shop if it can deal with such large stock. As to improvments, perhaps one end could come to a blunt point for the initial stages in making helms with a pointed top?

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Thanks for posting those inside shots. I like the peice even more now that you have shown the inside hammer marks and the tremendous amount of work that goes into that style of brest plate. Of course now that piece is begging to have a fancy gorget. . . Keep up the good work!

lorenzo2

On page 83 of Embleton's Medieval Military Costume he shows three drawings of 16th cent arming doublets with mail voiders taken from an early catalog of the holdings of a spanish museum. I don't think these garments still exist so the drawings may be all there is to go on.

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Unfortunately the rows are too even for flies. Unless they are trained flies. . . What I am looking at is Page 62 of Embleton's Medieval Military Costume where he shows a 15th cent reinactor using hobnailed shoes. Also on pg 37 he mentions a line from piers plowman about knobed shoes and "a few illu...

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Whats this I see on the soles of the shepards shoes? Knots, hobnails, treads, something else? I have Gobitz's book and out of 10,000 medieval shoes examined there is only one with hobnails, and that a specialized miners shoe. Anyone else with similar pictorial evidence of some kind of sole tread/nai...

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Thanks, I missed the fact that that was a link.

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This board is like the wild west. You will need to be tough and thick skinned if you want to be a pioneer and go west and survive. However, out west is where the gold is for those who can stick it out. Who knows, you might even come to like it out here! As to your original question, very tough. Goli...

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Very fine! However, we need more pics! We feed on pics! We need pics with the visors in different positions so we can see the details! Stop teasing us already! Arrgh, starting to sound like Ugo. . .

lorenzo2

Several of the drawings are included in Barber and Barkers book on tournaments.

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Gwyn, The references are in the book Italian Cotton Industry in the Latter Middle Ages 100-1600 by Maureen Mazzaoui. I got the book on ILL from The California State University at Fresno. Here is a bio on the author. m The work summarizes bits of the original texts of rules and records of Italian wea...

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Actually the discussion is about italian export records sayingthe stuffis destined for england. However, since you are english it does make cotton much rarer which I take is the reason for the ban. On the other hand, since the material is unusual in england, it does make sense to insist that newbies...

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Wolf, This has come up on seveal threads before. A total ban on cotton (the fiber) is not historical. Perhaps it is considered to difficult to police properly? I mean its pretty clear that the stuff was being exprted to much of europe by the italians and documents like "How a man shall be armed" cal...

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Wolf, I notice the Grey's standards still have the "No cotton, even the fiber, under any circumstances" rule. Presumably that will be updated to read cotton is an allowable substance under appropriate controls?

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Waist seam, pretty clear given the seams in the back of the doublet have been so well detailed. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/l ... german.bmp

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Thanks for posting, lots of great tidbits there. For instance, I wonder what the lead malls looked like and what were they used for, weapons, tools?

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Ok export, maybe. Don't think there are any cloth covered elbows from 15th cent still existing, if the colored arms seen in rt re indeed those. However, In Laceys thesis on the development of the coat of plates and the brig he quotes an italian inventory of late 15th cent. Medici? 1496? as listing h...

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What makes you think the arm harness is supposed to be Italian?

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Very nice work. The bevor in particular has sexy lines. Will this helmet have single or multiple visors?

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Jeff, number 32 of that series on the web site you posted. I think you put the wrong number in the URL. You bring up an interesting question though, what sort of armour would go with sleeves like that if plate won't work well with it? My doublet has sleeve caps that are similar in length to just abo...

lorenzo2

There are a few Italian paintings showing the style with no peplums such as the fellow with his back to us in the grey doublet in this painting cerca 1460. I have a closeup of the figure in a book at home and there is definitely no peplum seam. It is not clear to me that this style was widely used e...

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I have a copy of that book and it is indeed a must have for anyone with an interest in holding or participating in a tournament. Its also chock full of nice illuminations of medieval tournanents. By the way, I am not affiliated with the seller in any way.

lorenzo2

Take a visit to pg 47 of this tutorial on the brighthelm web site. It shows a reasonably accurate take on the Chalcis brig complete with instructions. I would call this a brig since it is probably late 14th/early 15th cent and has a somewhat more brig like appearance than COP like appearance. If you...

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The black and white was a cool suite. Unfortunately I forgot to photo it!
I forgot, Pics 36 and 37 are the italian elbow cop Ugo was using for the raising and flairing demonstration. The pen marks are Ugos recommendations on how to make the pattern fit me better.

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Here are some of my pics. Most of what I have is video. 11 someone firing an asymetrical bow 12-15 some stakes 16 Okami flaring a cop with a sharpened saddle stake 17 Ugos arm and the "eye" breast plate 18 "eye" closeup 19 me in a 16th cent breast plate, Ugo's work? 21 closeup of inside of breast 23...

15th cent shoe treads