The Armour Archive

earnest carruthers

Duncan - egg (yolk) temper is ok to use but you need to prep the cloth really well. Egg strokes are touch dry almost immediately and are not blendable, so it is a case of building up the image by hatching, can take along time. I totally agree with you regarding using supposedly easier and cheaper mo...

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Yes, really clever eh?

Marc knows his stuff, they are big on chocolate at the moment by all accounts.

His oppo will no doubt correct me when he sees this post. eh RF?

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Ok Painting cloth in england was called staining. It was held in very low esteem, it was seen as the poorer cousin to painters - yes they both painted but only one set was called painters. Restrictions on 'staynours' included: Only working on cloth - not being allowed to work on wood or stone etc - ...

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So I can't be a Conquistador? ;-(

But I reckon you would make a great Klingon

"Graaa;akk sh'takk Graa M'tek"

back atcha!

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Tim

" I'm thinking anything Hispanic is going to have a big following. If not now, then soon.."

Woo hoo put me down for a conquistador outfit.

Gwen please do 16thC

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Well strictly speaking I was plugging Verre Historique but I knew you sold their stuff in the US

earnest carruthers

linen, hemp and depending where in the world, sinew and other materials. I would say that making bow strings is not that complicated, I say that because string and I not good friends, so if I can make a bow string most people can. I would recommend using the single loop bowstring with the other end ...

earnest carruthers

did you take up the issue with them at first? say via email etc? to resolve it?

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Trinity Court are excellent, they make the stuff they sell, their stuff is in museums and is sought after in the UK reenactment circuit.

earnest carruthers

dyeing leather with brazil wood or madder is really easy. Teh brazil gives a nice cherry/deep pinkish red which is enriched with a treatment of beeswax and turps teh madder is more of a browny red both medieval leather dyes. brazil wood alum and water bring to a hot simmer, let cool, put your leathe...

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Indeed the Victorians are marred by the Medieval Romantics who painted a picture that the Victorians were all livingin medieval fantasy land. When in reality the great interest the Victorians had for the middle ages is essentially what gave us what we do now. It was not all William Morris and Pugin ...

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temper is used in medieval painting, the temper was the binding medium:

egg
gum
distemper

but it survives erroneously as just egg tempera when the tempera just means binder.

it is also used in Portuguese cooking ehich also went to Japanese - tempura

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Verre historique in Belgium are excellent, but are not online, Gwen sells some of their stuff.

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Ah Klaus, I could tell you a story about a donkey a mountain pass in Switzerland, a large dinger and lots of braying as we tried to shoo it away - it was a pack donkey we had hired to carry some stuff and after we had unloaded it it walked off a way stopped had a hard on and brayed for about ten min...

earnest carruthers

Looks ace, how are the walls held on? hooks onto a running line? I take it you will be having separate walls?

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As Tim says it looks like the artist is portraying something that definitely works, the nice thing is the stages of erection from donkey onwards, the design of the tent is economical enough to mean just one man for the put up, which of course frees others to put other tents up or whatever. A real ge...

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Cool, slightly OT but it kind of knocks the idea of spokes and wheels into touch really, totally practical and sensible materials and set up wise.

Yeas Jehan, dollars for tents...I wonder what the sign meant, I will now go and find out...

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Yeah what Chefg said, plus a cautionary note, some may be as in the pic you have there slightly stretching the bounds a bit in that he seems to be based in a church. Ghirlandao has a good representation if a little contrived.. here you are mate ghirlandaio m A french one m van eyck m they all look v...

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Maurice Keen = English Society in the later middle ages 1350 - 1500 - excellent.

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Have walls that you can hang from an inside strip and you will have a decent medieval tent.

See the Bettinni pic attached

Best things about this pic:

crows feet attached to tent prior to erection
wall being hung separately
put up by a single man due to use of main guys first,

earnest carruthers

Hanawalt - The Ties that Bound mainly concerned with peasant life in the late middle ages, very good primer in that she uses coroners' reports to catalogue the various deaths and occupational hazards which give a great insight into daily life in England. Try the Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse an...

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Superb

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"ACW and LH and Fantasy LARPers actually take on a role and carry that role throughout. " depends, most LH in say UK is third person, no personae, the only roles being represented by the task, not any name or title - the latter certainly being a role. But I agree with James B, to the average bod in ...

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yeah, I realised later it isn't a barbuta, but what the hell, helmet....

cheers.

I saw a colour image of that some years ago or was it a drawing, Embleton had something to do with it in an article.

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Isn't yew poisonous or is it just the berries?

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The memling images shows a rolled edge to each end of the plates to take a thicker connecting ring.

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There is the velvet covered Italian Barbuta with large square rivets, assuming the covering was orginal.

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anus = ring
ass = donkey in these parts

Well I understood what he was getting at, made me smile for a while.

earnest carruthers

Loads of 15thC ones I can think of, look for picturs of st Jerome in his study for a start. They are generally shelves, sometimes drawers, boosk invariably stored on their sides. And of course for reading lecterns. can't think of any 14thC off top of my head but I suspect that there wont be a lot of...

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Bruno 'analized' would mean something completely different as in anal-ised ----- He wasn't correcting your spelling so much as noting an amusing reading of the word, ah well...

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Unless you have a specific need for woodcut images cast your net to paintings, they tend to allow more detail.

Pieter Breughel - The Three Soldiers 1568

Sculpture too - bas relief
Pierre Bontemps - battle scene tomb of Francis 1 - 1552

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Blimey. I do think the issue is overblown, in the UK it would be a case of passing off (or similar) as someone else, but pretend titles (no matter how well earned in whatever group) are pretend beyond that. So I can't see the fuss when in its place. I thought about if a society offered medals of bra...

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Stacy you may well be right, for him to decry the use of nomes de guerre on fora like this is futile as they are a direct extentsion of the hobby and many will only know others by their 'ranks' or other names inc nick names, therefore appropriate. Alcynoneus 'do they have these in Europe?' yes we ge...

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wood
pewter
silver
bread

all trencher bases. all about how much cash you would have had

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Very bright yellows are perfectly fine (if you could afford them), very much in keeping with the need for bright colours rather than dull ones, dull ones are cheaper. Weld - reseda luteola, gives an almost flourescent yellow and is a base for over dyeing with woad to make some very nice greens. I wo...