The Armour Archive

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I'm puzzled . . . no one has any comments on this?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

This isn't really an ad for the business, but I got a link to it from a mailing list and thought some on here might be interested. They build helm crests in period styles and materials, and they look robust enough to take some hits. [img]http://www.crestsunlimited.net/files/2778444/uploaded/New_Lymp...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

GregorMacBeathain wrote:Just a note, I get like 4 password requests from me.com when those pictures try to open.

So THAT's what that was all about!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Glad to be of service! <Bow>

Donal Mac Ruiseart

If I can, I will.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

There is a movie from the 60s called "Sword of Lancelot" in which the knights wear maille and barrel helms. Looked pretty reasonable.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

- sit down a lot, or squat. Someone looking up at you is rarely intimidating. I think you meant sit down- people looking down towards you is rarely intimidating No, I think he got it right. It can be intimidating to others that you tower over them and they have to look up at you. Phsically lowering...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Dilan wrote:I do occasionally yell "LEAVE ME ALONE!! I'm a feeble old man!"

I just might take that up . . .

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Donal Mac Ruiseart

Per pale gules and sable on a chalice Or a Latin cross barbÃ©e gules. I'm not sure, though, if charged charges like that are permitted on badges. Watch this space, I'm going to go look it up. EDIT: There does not seem to be any such prohibition. Barring conflict, you should have no trouble with it. ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

'Sall right, Amos . . . you gave us heralds something to talk about!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

You even want to hide the gorget?

I would say that if you want to hide it, a keyhole neckline with only a narrow slit down the front closed with lacing is the best way. Size the round part of the neck opening to fit around your gorget.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Brother Amos's persona is a warrior-monk. He is also known as Amos the Pious.

The new design is not very different from the one Brother Amos was using before, and there were, so far as I know, no red flags over the religious imagery.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

OK, all kidding aside . . .

Is this the tunic you wear under your armour, or one you put over it like a surcote . . . or do you wear "hidden" armour?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Jestyr wrote:Still learning this heraldry thing!

So am I, and I've been at it almost as long as I've been in the SCA and am a capital-H Herald.

Konstantin wrote: I think (the squirrel) is cussing.

Squirrels cuss all the time, Konstantin. The only creatures with fowler mouths are crows.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I use the edging material that is a metal channel with a durable plastic cover that looks rather like leather. Theoretically it will stay on by itself, but it gets beaten up and works loose after a time; so I have to use straps or lacing to hold it in place.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Jestyr wrote:Is this legal? Wouldn't the squirrels be fimbriated sable, which would be illegal with the gules squirrel?

No, the thin black lines are simply lines of demarcation - artistic rather than heraldic, and too thin to be considered part of the emblazon.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Bob H wrote:And then ... there's always sabatons.

Funny, but that course of action never occurred to me . . . wear the steel toes OUTSIDE the shoes.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Here are a couple of squirrels:

Sejant and holding a nut like that is its conventional position.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Does anyone know of footgear that presents an authentic appearance while offering a fairly stiff shell around the feet? So that my already-savaged feet won't get savaged further by being stepped on?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Non Angli, sed Angeli!

This site shows angelic images from many periods, so be aware of the vintage of an image before you use it as an example.

Some other Drawings of Angels.

Again, be wary of any images that look too romantic, they're probably Victorian or early 20th C

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Behold The Dance of Death!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Well, some of the best images of unicorns are in The Hunt of the Unicorn . And then there is The Lady and the Unicorn . Please note that an unicorn is not simply a horse or pony with a horn growing from its forehead. An unicorn's hooves are cloven like that of a goat, it has a cleft upper lip and a ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

If you don't mind me asking . . . .

What manner of image are you hoping to produce?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I do know of two knights who used blue belts with their badges for their squires, not red belts at all. The late Duke Gyrth Oldcastle was one of those. Ravenspur squires wore blue belts. And squires of House Bedford wear black belts with white borders, liberally decorated with studs, bosses, and li...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

A related thing that annoys me: People who went to a school are called "alumni." Okay. They are. But every idiot in the world (including the college grads who should know better) mispronounces it and actually *says* "alumNAE" -- which is the feminine plural, not the masculine pl...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I know of a shield .showing a knight kneeling before a rather stern-looking lady, while the cadaverous figure of Death lurks behind the knight. A ribbon bears the inscription "Vous ou La Morte" (You or Death). The Manesse Codex has several. Here is one of a lady helming a kneeling knight ....

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Two questions, Amos: The way those crosses are drawn suggests that they may be Latin crosses (i.e., with the lower arm longer than the rest), but it's vague. Do you want them equal-armed or Latin style? I suggest that you draw them to make that clear. Also, do you specifically want the crosses arran...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

[T]he only belt/baldric I know of as being reserved is an unadorned white belt or baldric for Knights or Masters respectively. Quite right. The red belt of squires, green belt of Laurels' apprentices, and gold belt of Pelicans' protÃ©gÃ©s are traditional but nowhere ensconced in law SCA wide. Some ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Aegidius wrote:ok.. so no charges on a tierce, or on ordinaries in general?

Except for those named above, ordinaries CAN be charged.

If they could not, my coat of arms <-------- would be impossible.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

You want a tree whose trunk is bent like a bow?

It may be doable, but I wouldn't encourage it.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

[S]ometimes I think that nursing Madonnas were just a safe way to get porn. BITD, a nursing woman wasn't considered particularly erotic. Actually, the best way they did that was to depict classical/mythological subjects. Some of those images are pretty obviously soft-core porn. Hard-core existed, b...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Just as a point of terminology, creatures that are made up of parts of other beasts are technically monsters.

Such creatures range from the griffin and hippogriff to the mermaid and triton.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Darringer wrote:Maybe one of you fine archivists will know of a 15th c., if I remember correctly, of a painting of Mary with Child . . .

There's a big difference between a woman with child and a woman and child.

The way you described it, it would depict a pregnant Mary.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Actually, the soles of my Revivals are not smooth leather like the soles of a new pair of modern dress shoes. They're split sides. They have some texture but on some surfaces they tend to lose traction. Spectacularly. As for vulnerability . . . the uppers of those shoes are a LOT more flexible than ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

In a mailing list to which I subscribe, someone posted a question concerning a weapon term. It might be nonexistant, since the source is a work of fiction (didn't cite the work). Notwithstanding that, if occurs to me that if the weapon actually existed someone here might know of it. The term is &quo...

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Angels

Death

Unicorns

Re: well crap

My wordsmith's mind kicks in. . . .

Anyone know what this term refers to?