The Armour Archive

I had a gentleman tell me today that carpet armour was conceivable period for a 15th century Ottoman Turk....

Was he right? I wanted to just freaking giggle, but I know that I don't know everything....

Jean Paul

I guess he is right if he can find a reproduction of a 15th century Ottoman Turk's carpet.

Pad

Jean Paul de Sens wrote:I had a gentleman tell me today that carpet armour was conceivable period for a 15th century Ottoman Turk....

Was he right? I wanted to just freaking giggle, but I know that I don't know everything....

Jean Paul

Well, they had carpets, so you can't prove that it wasn't done.


(I can't overdo the winks on this...)

-Charlotte

Ask for pictures or first source descriptions. Armour has been made out of all kinds of interesting things in different places. We tend to fixate on metal and leather, but for example in China some infantry troops were armoured in layers of paper glued together. I don't have a specific reference. I hit on it in a book I was reading years ago and it stuck so I wouldn't take it as gospel, but there it is.

Jean Paul de Sens wrote:I had a gentleman tell me today that carpet armour was conceivable period for a 15th century Ottoman Turk....

Was he right? I wanted to just freaking giggle, but I know that I don't know everything....

Jean Paul

My standard response to claims of this nature is:

"Cool! Would you be kind enough to share your documentation on this? I'd love to see it."

Could this Gentel be confused with some form of woven defence? I know little of armor from that regon of the world. I just hypothisize that he is confused by bad art work.

Bryan