The Armour Archive

woodwose

If the pictures you found give you well enough of an idea of the width and lengths of various parts, I can try to describe how I think the parts go together based on the first pic... There are two parts as shown in the second pic... One has three long straps coming off it and goes closer to the thro...

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m If the deal ever wraps up with the house I've been trying all summer to get a loan for... I'd like to build some leaded glass bullseye windows like the one in this Lucas Cranach painting "Die Bezahlung (the deal)"... So, I'm wondering if anyone happens to know a source for these glass bu...

woodwose

Looks like a good time! Single sword has been my favorate for a while now too but not many of the still active fighters in my shire seem very interested in it so I generally stick to fencing Somewhere I have a photo of me fencing and doing a very similar pelvic thrust sort of move... I think the upp...

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A while ago I was invited to visit the workshop of one of the arms and armor restorers/sellers that I always used to auction catalogs from. Under one of the workbenches behind a pile of cruddy burgeonets I could see a lovely but equally cruddy maximilian style breastplate. I was only able to measure...

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Modeled: m I need to make them a bit tighter. He keeps letting them drop down... teens and their low riders.... They look good though.. Yeah, codpiece looks a bit disproportional to him, but not so much to the garment. Pointing them to a doublet would also help keep them at the right waistline.

woodwose

Dweezle, you are the man. What material did you use, and what stitch holds the strips together? I can see your stitching, not sure what ya did there tho. Its a fairly light but sturdy mystery wool from a secondhand shop. Machine sewn, I used a tight zig-zag stitch because I thought it might stretch...

woodwose

My wife was wondering the same thing a couple years ago. No mention of them anywhere at all in the campfrau patterns she bought. I think we decided they are not included, maybe because different people are comfortable with different amounts of seam allowance. Out of curiosity, which patterns are you...

woodwose

m At the top of that page I have a link to the woodcut of chamois hunters from the the Triumph of Maximilian. The guy on the far left is turned so you can see his sack and I think the other guys have similar things. I know of one other picture that probably shows something similar, but in far less d...

woodwose

As an aside, know any good sources for vertically striped stockings or hose? I want to make some, but all I've found so far says to sew strips of the different colors together to make a block, then cut that to make the stocking. I can't figure out HOW you sew the strips of color together, or then s...

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Feathers - I have a basic idea of what hat and helm feather arrangements mean in terms of Landsknecht ranks. The full circle around the hat brim seems to mean Hauptmann or Obrist for example. Does anyone have period color pictures showing these feathers to help identify what sort they were? thats r...

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I've been working on my early 1500's HRE chamois hunting kit. I just finished the boots and climbing irons and the hose are close to being done. Then I need to make a matching doublet, hood and hat - and a few accessories, like the hunting trousse, pole and spear point, snowshoes... I was hoping to ...

woodwose

there are also a lot of them in Maximilian's "Theuerdank", from 1517. Theuerdan/Maximilians is almost always wearing one, or something similar, when dressed for hunting or traveling. A couple examples:

http://mailmaker.tripod.com/theuerdank/ ... 5?i=14&s=1
http://mailmaker.tripod.com/theuerdank/ ... 9?i=28&s=1

woodwose

I'm surprised that no one asked, but where is your impression from? I know English and German doublets differed a bit, and think that ones from other countries might have had their own variations

woodwose

I have one that looks very much like what talbot posted, but without the handle... though the mail is of the same kind of split-rings and same general shape to the patch of mail. An elderly friend of my mother-in-law gave it to me, said that it had been her grandmother's, but thats about all I know ...

woodwose

to clarify, are you looking for what could be that specific image, or just ones that show the whirligig thing?

woodwose

it happened on feb. 14, at tourny of love. I was surprised how long Endewearde was able to keep it a secret... I guess it was decided on last september and I only figured out something was up a couple months ago. whether or not its "costume" or "period clothing" I just think its ...

woodwose

looking pretty good so far! the page on my site that Insane Irish linked to has my better version of the two pair of hosen I've finished (though the seams at the butt are a little funky and taken from part of Janet Arnolds pluderhose pattern, but I'm somewhat convinced that it is a structurally stro...

woodwose

Dweezle, its been said before, but you are the man. I got to look into the blankets... We talking old army blankets and such? Can those be dyed? WAIT! *TWWEET* STOP! "Wool" comes in many shapes, forms and colors. And weights. Some of the best suits out there are made of wool, and they don...

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Good sources for 100% wool? I just ordered the waffenrok pattern from kass, and I need me some wool.... for the 100% stuff I think we get most of ours from m I know thats where Eliana got the stuff for my big coat and two of her gowns... before that we were using second hand mystery wool from the s...

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If you slip a generation later, Lucas Cranach the Elder has a pair of paintings from the hunt: Hunting near Hartenfels Castle, which is a the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Staghunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau. I haven't found any good images on-line, but a book on the painter may ...

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But how does he close his visor without catching his mustachios? mine does not yet have the length for me to have any experience, but I'd say tuck them into the side/cheek plates for anyone interested in images from that book, I put them all in an album here: m I find it a little easier to look thr...

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thanks, my wallet is glad to hear that I don't need to buy leather for making what I thought that thing was. a field stool sounded a little pointless at first to be lugging out into the woods, but sitting on random jagged rocks and fallen trees with branches sticking out in all directions does get a...

woodwose

here is the only shot of mountaineering items I have. Erly 16th century in the city mus of Innsbruck. The hooks on the right are for climbing rock clifs wile hunting mountain goats. the object between the three hooks and the crossbow, anyone know what it is? is it a carrying case for the crossbow? ...

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thank you for the kind words Thaddeus! the cart is a lot of fun, and having one less car trying to get in and out of the campsites is nice for others as well, and fun for us - at least until we get more stuff to unpack. I just recently got back into SCA armoured fighting and several years ago I was ...

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I'm still working on these pages (as always with my web stuff), but wanted to post them since I might be offline for a while and it took way too long for me to get some of these out of the people that had some of them... the pages need some refining, but they are a start, and I figured some people m...

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Muric? Muriatic? My long-time mentor told me once that it's most common use is as a swimming pool and concrete cleaner. I've used it a few times and Halberd's observations are pretty much the same as my own.

also, use it in a well ventilated area.

woodwose

don't have a lot of time to post, but found this while quickly going through the myarmoury.com armor albums: m with that kind of stylized motif in mind, take a look at floral motifs on some of the parade carts in the Triumph of Maximilian. here's a link to what I think might be a complete set of ima...

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I found images from the Triumph of Maximilian available online (in a very annoying flash thing that won't let me download them to look at while away from an internet connection)... anyways, here's ones related to hunting: mounted huntsmen m mounted huntsman leading five deer m five chamois hunters -...

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if you don't want to bother with the whole electric current thing, a couple more traditional (and probably slightly more toxic) etchants are ferric chloride and nitric (but nitric can be pretty nasty). just submerge the metal in a bath of one of these (though you should use a separate bath for diffe...

woodwose

do you have any links to a tutorial or anything for these? I think I have an idea for how it could be done, but don't feel like reinventing the costrel... does it go something like: -cut out leather pieces and stitch them together -soak leather in water until it gets soft and pliable -start packing ...

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THese things came in all sizes, and the smaller ones are fairly typical - I think the larger ones are the sort of acting as portable ewers for wine, for huntsmen dining outdoors, and the like. You *do* see some soldiers with costrels in late Medieval art, but you don't see most soldiers with them, ...

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something about 110mb.com kind of sketches me out a bit. what they offer sounds great, but almost too good. flickr confuses me a lot. they have some funky restrictions regarding bandwidth and storage. after looking at most of these options for photo album sites they all look very cluttered. part of ...

woodwose

this last august a friend of mine was on his last day of his three month hike on the Appalacian Trail which ends at Mount Katahdin here in Maine. some friends and I went up to hike the mountain with him on his last day of hiking and we were all in varying degrees of period gear. Aside from the Theue...

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hmm I think 16oz is a bit small for what I want to do here is one of the pictures that really made me want one of these (though the first one I picked shows the vessel nicely and I couldn't resist the subject line that could go with it) m its hanging by a root partly submerged in the stream. I was r...

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Remember that more often than not, Mountaineering in the traditional sense was just a form of travel "through the mountains" which was not done as much as a sport like it is today I think as a necessity of travel. Some good stuff here, but as with a lot of resources, it deals mostly with ...

I want to make some windows...

Re: while we are talking about helms.