The Armour Archive

Looking at Peascod and later 16th century armors, there is simple fauld at the bottom with lames for the upper legs and hips. A bit different from previous century's usual laminated design that used faulds to cover the entire midriff.

I'm curious if the peascod and other late breastplates stopped coverage at the ribs/mid belly area, or if they went lower to cover the entire belly.

Any info is appreciated. Thanks.

The faulds of those armours tended to amount more to lamed tassets, articulating on the usual leathers/sliding rivets, substituting for faulds, and shaped to cover the front half of trunk hose, so they really curved out at the hips in that whole giant-girl-hips silhouette that was fashionable in those Elizabethan times. Earlyish on, there would be cuisse and couter beneath, with or without greave, suitably articulated.

Then some clever sod thought, "Why not just run those tassets all the way down?" and thus the lobstertail cuisse and the longer, lame-articulated sort of pikemen's armor. They were still huge at the hips, but now shaped more like Venetians than like paned trunkhose.

Who all in here have made the faulds& tassets for a peascod? I need to augment mine.