The Armour Archive

earnest carruthers

As the good rev says, gloss and matte. Gloss finishes were desired and prized, some matte surfaces were subsequently varnished, to increase brilliance and to water proof, esp for fabrics that might be exposed to the rain, although size painting is surprisingly resistant to light rain. Egg is great f...

earnest carruthers

Absolutely.

more is more as they say.

earnest carruthers

The Cennini book, Il Libro del 'arte - Dover, also outlines gilding on cloth, fortunately in English The way to gild on wool is slightly different and more demanding than on fine linen or silk, ie the nap is a right pain to settle down. Also one must consider gilded cloths to be ephemeral, many item...

earnest carruthers

Block printing on cloth is as easy an activity can get: Suggest using a wooden block, cut the face to the pattern you want. Use actual printing press ink (ie varnish based 'paint), this was what they used when printing cloth, not many references to it, although: Sion Textile, large hanging with the ...

earnest carruthers

Randall, Wales, spoiled for choice for castles, which is a nice dilemma to have. If you ever head to east of England, come to see some of the nice timbered buildings we have left, obvious places like Lavenham and Long Melford, but also plenty of other villages in the region. Merchant house has speci...

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Hi RM, no it is owned by CADW, the Welsh Heritage organisation. A great place for events, a few miles from Abergavenny. Sadly, as is the case with other 'preserved' places there are no rendered walls, no actual attempts at restoration, so we still get this typical scene of people living in bare ston...

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http://www.castlewales.com/tretwr.html

http://westwales.co.uk/graphics/tretower2.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZPGQaRb7jFE/R8s ... etower.jpg

Spent many a happy week living/playing in there in the late 1980s.

Not the castle tower, but the main manor.

Pics don't do it justice.

earnest carruthers

Excellent, glad to hear it Dave, I have worked with Griff at two of this three Tower jousts as a minion, once as scorer at 90 degrees to the tilt rail and I only then fully appreciated the work and training that went into what they do. "It kinda set the bar pretty high for me for any further jo...

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Are you going to leather cover it?

nice btw.

earnest carruthers

NIce one PP. The big difference between Britain and much of Europe is that many of the castles are in impeccable condition and in use, Switzerland has a fair share of them. Britain has a few, but hardly that are in anything like they would have looked like. It is quite a treat playing in places that...

earnest carruthers

Caister castle was no monolith, yet it was besieged and attacked, it was also a residence that had rather a lot of ordinance stored within.

Not everyone needs a Massive Marcher Lord bastion against the Welsh or Scots.

Besides, everyone knows that an Englishman's home is his castle

earnest carruthers

Yes him indeed.

He said he had major jet lag after that event.

How was it, fun?

earnest carruthers

Would love to go to Scotney, I do like Stokesay though, spent an event there in 2006, lovely castle.

http://www.oldswinford.dudley.gov.uk/Stokesay.htm

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http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_wa ... castle.htm

because it is so impressive, it is a no nonsense castle.

earnest carruthers

I contacted a key player and they said it was basically a low budget do and had to make the best of it, which they seemed to.

earnest carruthers

"I run an entertainment channel first and foremost, which happens to be based on history" - Richard Melman, History Channel UK " because every fool knows you can't sell education, so you dress it up as entertainment... Luckily the channel has some good stuff, mainly things it re-runs ...

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RPM "I think the child is a bit small to grill on how they think but I am pretty sure she thinks in both languages and she knows how to speak what language to who and when." From personal experience I can concur, as a child and teenager I was totally fluent in Portuguese, I used to spend w...

earnest carruthers

"The only major "WTF?" for me though was the woman packing the halberd."

Same.

I might email Henry and ask why.

earnest carruthers

Something to bear in mind and it is a small point, the effect of light through a dyed tent is not the same as a painted one. The dyed cloth acts as a 'gel' ie letting in the light of that colour, painted, ie with opaque elements will let in very little light and you will get dark patches seen from t...

earnest carruthers

" Randal and Earnest did yall read his post that clarified what he meant. " Sorry, I got the wrong end of the stick. If that is the case then his non-Norman subjects have always spoken English, it was his Norman subjects that ended up being English speakers. So maybe the question should be...

earnest carruthers

I did smirk when the morph from Henry VIII to Griffin, quite unexpected, although he has portrayed young H at other times.

Philipe's kit looks nice.

earnest carruthers

I would opt for Henry VII, or if not Henry VIII.

As the question was about the English we know now, that was not that far off from ours, certainly statute english is pretty easy to understand and is no longer the middle English of Chaucer's time and the king of the same era.

earnest carruthers

That would to some extent depend on which part of the 15th, styles changed. The BP, plackart and faulds in this pic are what always spring to mind, not to mention the combo of the jack as a foundation. Emulate that - if that is your era and you could rock, I cannot comment on the SCA fighting aspect...

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Hi, may I say this with caution, but the leather part of the item looks rather suspect, it does not resemble a brigandine, which were usually made from overlapping metal plates How about acquiring a metal breastplate to replace the leather, have the placart sliding or fixed, that will offer you more...

earnest carruthers

Your hose construction, attachment and length (height) are generally speaking dependent on which part of the 14thc you portray, early to mid and you attach the hose to the breech strap and later to the upper garment doublet/pourpoint. Attachments involving hose to breech (braies) include tying to th...

earnest carruthers

Although later, the Wallace Collection and the Tower have painted sallets. Painting on metal is easily achieved using what was basically a varnish, this was linseed or hemp oil boiled with colophony or similar oil based resins, this makes a stiff and ultimately very glossy paint, not only that but s...

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Are they not the ones from the MoL textile book? the selvedge garter?

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"Or were they all of the tablet weave cloth? "

The Baynards Castle garters were the selvedge of a wool cloth apparently, ie scrap.

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www.historicenterprises.com

email Gwen.

I live in Ipswich too

but the original one.

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oops duplicate post

earnest carruthers

"Mr. carruthers....I was thinking the opposite direction and using a acid(vinegar), but lye kind of makes sense.....it's used in making rawhide/leather and it would be much cheaper to attain a lye solution(wood ashes and water)....question... how does the use of a base or acid effect the protei...

earnest carruthers

Aren't they gambesons on the archers and the spearman on the left or other similar quilted garments?

earnest carruthers

Ah, forgot Central did more than graphic design. The lions are nice work and I am sure your goldsmithing comes in more than handy. I learned woodblock and other relief printing in order to improve my portfolio for application to my foundation course, I then was undertaking some medieval applied arts...

earnest carruthers

(cuba) A graphic designer as well, same as me, but didn't go to CSM, did my poor degree at Middlesex, depending on when you were at Central, did you know Paul Cohen? circa 1993-1996. Ninya Mikhaila did her costumiers course at London college of Fashion, small world (back from Cuba) Shame about Tewke...

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Really nice work Lawrence, it will be a pleasure to see some fully raised work on the circuit. Are you at Hereford and Worcester's blacksmithing course? If so, you would be following in the footsteps of Dave Stirling Brown and Chris Cound, both very acccomplished metal workers and armour makers. Wil...