The Armour Archive

Mac wrote:

Konstantin the Red wrote:Hmm, not a detail you pick up from looking at pics of the mail sleeves hung up in Churburg -- they show the sock-heel shape at the bend of the arm just fine, but left or right sleeve? Not so much. I'd been under the impression sleeves of mail were one pattern, no handedness at all in munition grade anyway, so this is news.

Mail sleeves hung up on an armory wall certainly give the impression of symmetry. However, in light of my recent foray into the subject, I must conclude that this apparent symmetry is illusory. In fact the point of the elbow is somewhere between ""down" and "back", and the arm reductions are carried out so as to be in back. In short, they are either rights or lefts, and if you put one on the wrong arm, it does not fit nearly as well as if you put it on the correct arm.

Mac

woodwose wrote: Can a right arm sleeve be turned inside out to make a left arm sleeve?