For those interested in velvet covered armour !

[Ancelin]

Maybe you already know about it, but there are some interesting pictures of velvet covered armour (corazzina style) on the Valentine Armouries web page.

Here are the links :

http://www.varmouries.com/vcat_04.html
http://www.varmouries.com/tran_06.html
http://www.varmouries.com/tran_10.html

There is a red one and a black one. I think that the black one really looks good but the pictures of the red one are better. I find that the inside view of the armour is especially interesting.

I'm not sure about it, but the rivets' head don't look round to me. I mean that they look like they have a kind of «rosette» head. What do you think? Where would one find this kind of rivets?

And what about the «periodness» of this armour? I've seen other corazzina reproductions with a two pieces back plate and others with a larger number of plates. I am trying to draft patterns fo myself and I don't know what kind of backplate i'm going to aim for. Any information will be welcome!

Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

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Ancelin

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[This message has been edited by Ancelin (edited 04-01-2001).]

[Brodir]

someone told me once that the original breastplate was assembled by a museum curator from a find. He was done, and had a bunch of plates left over, so he actually -=*GROUND*=- the plates down to a different shape, and improvised the skirt section. If you are planning on making one, do away with the skirt.

[Otto von Teich]

Hi Ancelin, I think thats copied directly from the one in the Metropolitan Museum. I suspect thats how the original was made,however larger plates in the back should provide a little better protection in my opinion. I think the larger the plate the better the shock is absorbed. I ordered one a short while back from Valentine, hopefully I'll have mine sometime in November. The only thing I requested different was to have the main breastplates made in 16 gauge...Otto

[Ancelin]

Thanks,

I knew that the Met armour is a composite but I thought that the «covered» part of the armour was fairly acurate.

I've seen the skirt part reconstructed numerous ways (horizontal lames, vertical lames, lots of smaller covered scales, etc.)What would be the correct way to make this part of the armour? Should it have a skirt at all?

Merci!

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Ancelin

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