The Armour Archive

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There is a nice printed collection called the Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw. I've seen remainder copies for as little as $5. Has up to date introductions to the different pieces.

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Or bigger than you....and just resew them tighter down the leg. And if you sew them inside -out...it sort of looks like wool from a few feet. That is another way to go a bit more work but you can move the seam to the back. One of the main problems with cotton hosen made from thin or lycra knits is ...

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Anybody out there have any ideas that might work? Besides sweatpants? I have looked at an awful lot of sweatpants and I just don't think they would work right, I think it may be the pockets that make them look odd. Sweatpants. Go to Walmart and get a pair that is atleast one size smaller then you w...

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I'm thinking coins made from a soft metal, something like pewter. If someone wants to provide pics of appropriate coins, I can engrav the dies so that we get something the right size, shape, etc. and that looks more or less right. Do you have the equipment to make sheets to make planchets out of? A...

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Bob you do realize that all your doing is arguing against the evidence. You have not put forth one shred of evidence for your interpretation other then the picture looks like it is cord. An argument you have almost always rejected from others. You can believe whatever you want. It is a free country ...

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On the same token, do you believe that they are not braided cords of material? I'm curious. Braided material/cords clearly depicted. Your interpretation may vary. As to possible reasons for the braided strips: decoration, reinforcement (?) which also doesn't seem to be in the text)). As an aside: t...

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chef de chambre wrote:
Peder wrote:
chef de chambre wrote:Dan Houchins was going to make us a copy of the leather and cording arm harness before he deployed.

I'm curious why you believe its cording.

Brent

Cause that is what the text states.

I'm not seeing anything about cording on leather in the text.

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chef de chambre wrote:Dan Houchins was going to make us a copy of the leather and cording arm harness before he deployed.

I'm curious why you believe its cording.

Brent

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I'm curious about liveries being tabards as in having opened sides as opposed to being like a coat or what not. All the images I have seen from period show sew sides of some sort. I'd go with something like this [img]http://www.medievalproductions.nl/compagnie_de_ordonnance/pictures/varlet.jpg[/img]...

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Outside of barrel or sheet plastic I was wondering what other materials people have had success making hidden armor out of?

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You must have a very different type of culture of SCA where you are. We have had this conversation. I'd be surprised if anyone has the level of things that have developed in parts of Atlantia. Your ideas about the group you want to form would fly very well out here (partially through the efforts of...

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Nothing. Nothing at all. But Brent, in my limited and second-hand experience, has a very exacting standard and can be very blunt sometimes. I don't think that those are things that will lead to success in this. The reputation of having exacting standards is kinda amusing to me because among the 15t...

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Now that is interesting. I wouldn't call it an armet though because it looks like it is in the great bascinet/close helm family based on how the chin is.

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I'm in central Virginia, but it sounds like a hoot, and maybe even a blast or two. Don't know if I could play from out here, but I'd be willing to build the kit. Well with your proximity to Greys I would guess your a member there. No reason you can't double kit like MJ. Any side in particular? The ...

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Standards would basically be low end re-enactment standards plus allowing for any safety needs required by the SCA. I don't know you other than from what some have told me of you, and what you write here. Based on that, I think that the above statement will lead to you getting seriously cheesed off...

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MJ, nothing stops you from doing your kit that way in fact I would recommend it as you are close enough to some of the LH groups that the more of your kit that works for both the better. I don't know the details of your graduate studies, or the circumstances. I am sincerely sorry, especially because...

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It could be worse, you could like looking at 15th century Italian breastplates more then looking at naked women.

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They say when life hands you Lemons you should make lemonade, so I guess when life hands you shit you make fertilizer. So basically I've failed to complete my graduate degree, although I don't really care which is likely one of the reasons I failed to complete it. So now with little or nothing left ...

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Snaebjorn Hakonarson wrote:Does anyone know a glossary or something of these terms so I may look through it?

Go to page 59 of the document in the second link I posted. Its about as basic and period as you will get for the offices. Its about 15 pages and some of the officers you won't use.

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While it deals mostly with a kings household a good compromise might be the King's Mirror. m Probably the best simple source you are going to readily find is the Book of Courtesy which is 15th century English but the text is almost certainly a compilation but I cannot find the specifics on that. m

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Your one of Grey's right. Definitely go with the books I said next. Standards of Living is a broader time frame like Keen's and Hanawalt's books covering roughly 1250(1300?) to 1520. It is socio-economics so it covers wages, diet, housing stuff like that. Growing up in Medieval London is the book Ha...

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Canary Islanders were also settled in San Antonio.

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I'd probably go with Standards of Living in the later Middle Ages. Or you could go with Hanawalt's Growing up in medieval London. One thing to do is to look in the back of English Society in the Late Middle Ages and find the more reading list for the chapters you found most interesting.

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Whatever you do, do NOT leave them in you in your luggage after an event where it rained. I did that after the one Michealmas I went to and by the time I remembered them they had grown something had needed some serious cleaning.

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Are there any other plastics or what not that can be used instead. I'm thinking specifically for body armour.

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How do you know how much metal to put in there to get a decent shaped coin out?

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Anyone who is interested in the subject of early European goings on in America should check out the books on La Isabella which was the first town founded by Columbus, which failed and only existed a very long time which was dug in the last decade.

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Jenn my copy is the Elibron, 2 volumes in one book. Which is the other edition on there. It is a reprint. So Chef will just have to read it with the missing pages and decide if it is worth getting a copy of.

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What kind of coin press is it?

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I think its 18th century, Jenn should be able to get it on Google books

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I've just realized that creatively is an adverb formed from an adjective formed from a verb which is one of the reasons it is a pain and makes one question if they expressed it that way, although irrelevant because it changes the meaning a whole lot. As for the forms of the verbs. Look for Latin mot...

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Because I'm cool like that I have HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY and CONQUEST OF THE CANARY ISLANDS
Which I believe is the text you looking for. Long been in English

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Since I intend to modify the tail and bottom edge I'm more concerned about having not having enough then having too much. One thing I've learned over the years is that if you don't have a lot of money to spend sometimes your better off to aim for something that is a good base line and improve it you...

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I have to admit that the earlier eras don't sell well. I understand that there was a depression on and all, but c'mon! I was expecting some of the Richard the Lionheart era folks to snap up the John or Henry II pennies. One of the problems is that just like covering all eras is difficult you also h...

Re: Hosen Alternatives.....

Re: Hosen Alternatives.....

Non-Steel and Non-Leather armouring materials

Re: Lemons and Shit

Re: Lemons and Shit

Re: Lemons and Shit

WOR SCA group (Lemons and Crap)