The Armour Archive

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D. Your hat will look better if you sew the corners to the brim or at least closer to it. If you look closely, they are almost always tacked down at least close or onto the brim. I pattern most men by cutting up blue jeans that fit them. Just draw a line down the back of the leg and cut around the c...

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Very nice job Crimthann! I love linen. Thanks for the picture. I did do some work on the landknecht pants, finished the codpiece and got some more slashing done and one long seam. I should try to finish them off this week along with his doublet (wams) for an event Saturday. I'll post a picture when ...

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Very nice!

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I patterned a fellow for landsknecht breeches Friday night.

I posting because I AM going to make myself work on my sons pants today... Its a very warm day, we have no air conditioning, my knee has been acting up, so I need to push forward...

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It was, if I've read the stories right, intended to fill two purposes: 1. to introduce some sort of missile fire capability into heavy fighting, probably because everybody knew that wars had people throwing stones and shooting arrows and such. i.e., for flavor and verisimilitude. 2. to give heavy f...

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Yes, many artists participated in doing the Triumph. I think Burgkmair was effectively the "prime contractor". Durer is the artist for several of the plates.

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I finished up my braies and undertunic today. About to start up some hose and a short cote. What weight linen should I get for those? I used 5.3 oz on the under clothes since I felt the 3.5 might be a bit see through. Don't need the world seeing my naughty bits. Still kinda see through but looks ni...

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Helped a friend cut out a linen dress last night. Yesterday finished slashing my son's pants and sewed the slashed part to the inner lining. These are the looser 1530s type. Currently handsewing decorative pinstripe cording to the outside... Can't bring myself to make him something simple...no not f...

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In Lives of the Courtesans, it discusses how dipilatories are very much in demand by courtesans and prostitutes. These would remove armpit hair and pubic hair, but it may have been more keep lice under control than odor. This may not have been true for the good wives of the the town. Even as recentl...

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There is a letter I've seen quotes of from the 16th c from an English traveler to a German city. He is astounded at how much people bathe and amazed that they have rules not allowing people to toss night waste into the streets or keep pigs in the city.

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Note the garters tied in a half bow... That is a scene from the Triumph of Maximillian, which was done by several artists and often attributed to Hans Burgkmair. There is an out of print Dover series edition. I have one, but I guard it carefully He has a Barett a folded crown. Some are sewn square c...

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Jost Amman is 2nd half of the 16th c. We have a lot more to work with in 16th c Germany (even pretty early on) due to printing presses being so active.

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This year's war was pretty even from a CA perspective ... CA wasn't the deciding factor in the battles where it was included, probably because there just weren't that many of them. As mrks points out, your impression could be heavily influenced by your perspective. Imagine if you were Radnor: Talke...

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The AEIOU banner: m m Some of Durer's were still in the 15th c. Durer shows some banners in two pictures, one of Stephen Baumgartner and one of Lucas Baumgartner, also Der Heilige George zu Fuss and der heilige George zu Pferde, and in some of his triptich designs in plate XXIII and XXIV m m).html m...

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What period are you looking for? There are great pictures of banners in Albrecht Altdorfer paintings and you can see examples in German Renaissance Woodcuts, 1500-1550 There are interesting banners shown in the Triumph of Maximillian where they have women as supporters for civic arms painted on bann...

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Flittie, The Adrian Empire usually uses arrows in light weapon scenarios, where they use shinais as wasters or rapiers. In contested Crown or Imperial wars, the participants are actually getting a 'vote' by winning battles because their Crowns are picked by war scenarios. They occasionally allow the...

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We used to have rabbit blunts on wooden arrow shafts until: People were gleaning wooden arrows that had been stepped on and shooting them back, which sometimes broke in the air or broke on input, skewering a few people. One I saw was a fellow with a broken shaft embedded several inches in his armpit...

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I would say idealization, characteristic of most Rennaissance artists. Adam for example, there are manuscripts that show similarly idealized male forms - with nearly impossible musculature. But many of the pictures in the period I'm doing are painted by realists. over and over you see all types of ...

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he he, there are plenty of paintings of plump Germans, both men and women... Many of the buxom Renaissance beauties are pretty thick, but only in a slightly soft way. Many have some serious musculature under their plumpness - IMHO, because they walked and women did a lot of physical labor that they ...

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I heard that someone came up with the stargazer type chair at some fur trade event. It wasn't period for them either, but it took off like lightening.

Then it spread to the SCA.

I love being early 16th c. We get folding chairs with backs!

-J

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I have seen several spectators almost get hit with crossbow bolts at recent wars with no eye protection.

Blinding someone could be very serious.

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I'd like to see a happy medium. I think we have a certian number of CA who end up on the heavies field and drop the CA. In that way it is good. The unlimited arrows issue is a problem. Some groups bring hundreds of arrows in carts. I was part of the crowd that got CA banned in Caid in the 80s. It ma...

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We run a longsword/greatsword tourney in our canton. We have run two separate lists and then had the finalists fight it out with whatever they like. We have been using 60" or less for longswords, 60" to 7.5' for greatswords. With Greatswords, we made them use both hands for any striking bl...

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I forgot to mention that in all large circle cut/bias patterns, it is best to hand them for a few weeks with weights on the hems. I usually spray a light mist on them every few days too to relax the fabric, so that it stretches out. For weights I use lots of clothespins, with drapery weights hung fr...

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(The 1546 Launingen encampment only uses what appears to be a pre-existing fence line.) There are 2 woodcuts in Medieval Warfare from the early 16th c that show canvas walls as shown in the picture you reference above. One is painted similar to tent decoration. We hadn't thought of getting walls un...

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My husband's rocks are all lined. The hem of the outer overlaps the lining.

If the fabric is too thick to fold over twice, I use some bias tape on the edge.

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Proxus, I understand. it does not come to me often, but a few times I've had a whole war be that way. Wow that is so ultimately cool.

Like veryone is in slow motion and everytime you swing or thrust someone falls down. Its really amazing.

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It is a fulled wool twill, but with a linen liner. I was considering giving a bottom hem treatment like this a try: m (fold over, press and stitch the exterior material separately, fold over the liner so that the raw edge is on the wrong side of the liner and exterior with the liner shorter than th...

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d-farrell2 wrote: Any advice on finishing the bottom hem?

Is it fulled wool? If so, you can always press and turn it once then whip or running stitch.

Fur always looks nice.

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Fitted and cut my son's landsknect pants out this weekend. 90% of the slashing is done. Almost ready to sew to the foundation lining. But after that I'll be adding some bits as well. I settled on one red leg, one black, with a light brown/tan lining. The Red will have some additional black accents a...

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Mord, just what I was going to say.. to keep doing it...

and for me, to be fight on the field with both my sons. That means at LEAST 5 more years...

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m Middle Ages not so dark for women When you think of the Middle Ages, empowerment of women probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But a Wilfrid Laurier University professor has just discovered an English book from 1457 that shows women in the role of healers, household managers, even fi...

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The bucket plastic doesn't shatter in strips that thin? Bucket plastic always seemed to shatter for me. I moved from bucket plastic to 1/8" ABS years ago and even then reenforce my left leg with thick leather. All covered by suede which helps protect it too. My current legs are stainless and al...

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Back in the 80s I made a German 1370s kit with the low belt. The belt was leather and decorated with square plaques. I don't think anyone was making the cool replica plaques at that time. I found that I had to use two thin belt loops that were at the side-back of my hips to keep it in place or it wo...

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Dweezle, your hose look nice. Nice Rock too. It seems that their are both stripes that change width due to the shape of the leg like you did yours, and some that are clearly even and straight and probably sewn or woven in panels, then cut, and many that were likely knitted. (I've seen some where you...

New Book found from 1457