Jack of Plates

[D.Z.P.]

I am thinking of helping a friend of mine make a Jack of Plates when I get home. I saw some postes on this before but I couldn't open links and pictures were gone and such. He said 16th century Spanish. I have seen some pictures online of them and of x-rays and all that but none of them were good enough detail for me to see anything and I am not that good at looking at x-ray pics anyway. So does anyone have any, or can somebody post a link to a place that shows the construction of the item. He is a tailor ( www.deserttorch.com ) so he will be doing all of the fabric part but any help on that would be great too.

[iaenmor]

Try to get ahold of Dave Teague (sp) here on the board. He has a bunch of stuff on jack of plates. I tried the search function but it seems to have a memory problem right know.

[Tibbie Croser]

I'm not sure about their use by the Spanish. Jacks of plates were used in northern England and Scotland, particularly by the Border Reivers. One good link is http://www.theborderers.info/bodydefences3.html. There are also good illustrations in the Osprey book on the Border Reivers.

[lorenzo2]

See if you can get a copy of the article "On the Remains of a Jack of Plates Excavated from Beeston Vastle in Cheshire" by Ian Eaves. Nice info on some excavated plates and surviving examples plus bonus info on brigandines. There is also a video (someone help me out on the exact title) called something like Arms and armour, plate armor put out by the history channel with the RA. There is a brief but very informative clip on the video of someone handling a partly damaged jack of plates where you can see some of the insides including the string ties.

[InsaneIrish]

well, considering there are only 2 tailors at Desert torch, and only one of them fights, you must be making (helping) Jose do this right?