Thanks for the welcome, James. So it looks like maille is the way to go if you're after historical accuracy. Scale is debatable, but a long coat of small plates is relegated to the realm of fantasy. Kinda like the maille in this picture: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20272&i...

So Endre, do you think that means there is more to this coat of plates than a misinterpretation of art? I can't imagine anyone describing maille as plates sewn together, and coats of plates of the transitional, or Wisby varieties came much later. Perhaps laminis ferreis arte consutis refers to scale...

Thanks for the reply. I figured that might be the case. Considering the amount of artistic license taken to depict armor in some contemporary sources I guess it is no great surprise phantom armors were created. It is not as if maille is particularly easy to depict when your medium is a tapestry, or ...

Hi everyone. This is my first post here. I have a question about a drawing of some armor in a book I own simply titled Armor. It is by Petr Klucina, and is one of those slim, large format, discount volumes with a lot of pictures that book stores seem to always have stacked on tables near the registe...