Chinese Lamellar diagram

Lu-shan · Post by **Lu-shan** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:04 pm

For your enjoyment, Chinese lamellar lacing diagrams. I don't know what eras these are from yet.

http://www.flatbow.com/images/Chinese_lamellar1.jpg

http://www.flatbow.com/images/Chinese_lamellar2.jpg

Cheers, Lu-shan

Vogeljager · Post by **Vogeljager** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:04 am

Anybody read Chinese?

Lu-shan · Post by **Lu-shan** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:41 am

Not me

Knowing very little about Lamellar armour - do these seem to be standard lacing patterns?

Lu-shan

HugoFuchs · Post by **HugoFuchs** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:47 am

In case you don't see it in the other thread.

http://chinese-armour.freewebspace.com/photo.html

Malek · Post by **Malek** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:50 pm

Near as I can tell, the lamellar plates appear to be pretty close to other lamellar I have researched and made.

Try the Silk Road armour archive at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505/index.html

It's a really good resource for Central and Eastern Asian armour. It also includes a pretty good section on lamellar armours.

- Malek

jagatei · Post by **jagatei** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:14 pm

My squire brother and fellow mongol has the book this probably came from. It is an entire book on chinese armour, with pages and pages of lamellar descriptions. Only problem of course is that it is in chinese. Made armour off of the pics but I am afraid that one day he will get it translated and it will be something along the lines of "common mistakes in lamellar armour"

Vogeljager · Post by **Vogeljager** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:40 am

Dosn't seen to be the "standard" lacing pattern.

High tek Diagram;
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456
789

Nearly all the lacing I have seen involves lacing Plates into rows (usually horizontal) then lacing the rows into sheets;
Lace 1-2-3 & 4-5-6 & 7-8-9
Lace the three rows together

The chinese method seems to lace a plate to one under then to the side;
Lace 1-4-2-5-3-6 then 4-7-5-8-6-9