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Could some one point me to a good resource for 14cent patterns ?

paterns for the heads of the nail, paterns for the clusters of nails or paterns for a corazina itself?

Sean

clustering of nails

From the looking i have been doing it seems that they mostly follow the out line of the plates . Is this correct?

They either follow the edge of the plates in close sequence or they are spaced roughly ** ** ** ** ** with each pair having a 3rd rivet farther inward to make a triangle.

If you are doing fewer larger plates that the one in the met, it is rows on the border. If you are doing smaller plates it is triangles. If you are doing very small plates it is back to rows since there is no place to put triangles. What style and time period were you considering?

If you drop a PM to Chef de Chambre he can probably quote extant pieces and artwork and what the rivet spacing is.

Sean

He said fourteenth, and he said corrazina, Sean. So we're talking the extremity of fewer, larger plates, as opposed to the hundreds on hundreds of small plates the brigandine developed into in the sixteenth century.

You would do well with this pattern. It is a drawing by Boccia that is based on fragments of actual armour.

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/l ... rawing.bmp