Lamellar with Leather Strips--Which Culture & Period?

Le Brassey · Post by **Le Brassey** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 12:10 pm

I have had no luck getting the answer to this elsewhere, and I know some of you folk are knowledgable on this. One of the lamellar assembly techniques involves lacing a strip of leather along the bottom of each row of the metal plates.

Q1: What is the purpose of this?

Q2: What cultures did this?

Q3: What time period is this technique proper for?

Note: I am most interested in making a lamellar cuirass (from my Apoc/Birka plates)suitable for Anglo-Saxon, Norse or Rus from 8th to 11th c.

Thanks!

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Timothy D. Finkas
The Historical Forgerie
Long Beach, CA

(SCA: Henri le Brassey / Lyondemere, Caid)

[This message has been edited by Le Brassey (edited 11-10-2000).]

Fitz · Post by **Fitz** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 6:08 pm

Le Brassey,
mongolian and rus for sureand in the time period you specified.check out normans website and the post under authenticity norman need your opinion where norman and i
discussed this very topic.
Fitz

Dmitriy · Post by **Dmitriy** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 6:22 pm

http://www.armourarchive.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000622.html

Thorgrim · Post by **Thorgrim** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 9:26 pm

A lot of the Byzantine examples (I was mostly interested in the reign of Basil II, late 10thC) appear to have solid narrow horizontal bands, one between each row of lames. The chest carvings show this particularly well. I have been unable to discover any further construction details.

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