Wouldn't several sets of laces/points be a valid solutions as well?Īgain, I am not certain on dates. Would the single spiral lace closure be that specific a requirement? I know buttons were in use in the 14th Century, but I can't remember if they were in use quite as early as 1340. Posted: Tue 07 Nov, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: Good luck, accumulating a set of armour is a lot of fun, I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Rondels at the elbow and armpits wouldn't be out of place.Ī klappviser bascinet seems a little late for that style of kit, I'd go with either an open-faced bascinet, a greathelm (optionally over the bascinet), or a kettle-hat. Single-piece elbows and gutter shaped vambraces and rerebraces or splinted leather would be also be good. Those arms you linked to wouldn't be too bad either. Gutter-shaped steel greaves wouldn't be out of the question. Single-piece knee cops and splinted greaves would be appropriate. Note that the most frequently reproduced coat of plates from the Wisby finds is also one of the least common types found if I recall correctly, this can make consulting google for information a bit misleading.įor leg armour I would go with either splinted leather or multi-layer linen cuisses which you could also splint. Check out Armour From the Battle of Wisby for info on these.
SPIRAL KNIGHTS PADDED ARMOR FULL
Hauberk reaching to mid-thigh, with either full or elbow length sleeves. This doesn't need to be hugely thick and rigid, it's just padding for under your armour to prevent chafing. Linen canvas aketon padded either with raw wool or tow, or made from a few layers of linen and closed at the front with a single spiral lace. linen shirt and braies, wool hose, and leather ankle-high turnshoes since you can't ignore the foundations. I think the Crecy and Sherrif would place you somewhere in the 1340s, so for basic armour of that period I would go with the following: I was going to direct you to, and their excellent collection of effigies but their site is down right now. It is an excellent starting point to get a feel for the evolution of European armour. If you havn't already I urge you to get hold of a copy of Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight by David Edge and John Miles Paddock. It would also help to give some thought to the class of armour you wish to represent, the armour worn by a wealthy lord will be quite different to that worn by a poor knight or a man at arms. The initial basis of your kit seems pretty sound, but there was a huge amount of development in the style and technology of armour in 14th century Europe so the first thing I would do is pick a country and a timeframe of 20 years or so because these choices will drastically affect the appropriateness of the armour you pick. Posted: Mon 06 Nov, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: Now I fond some interesting looking arm defences, would these be possible: The Idea is a haubergon and a bascinet (detachable clap visor) with aventail, splinted legs (hope to get some picture to post in the near future) with knee cops, hourglass gauntlets. I would like to start with a Gambeson kind of thing, which designs would actually fit? Probably a design with vertcally quilted lines, what about fastening? What would be a reasonably priced provider in Europe? It should be affordable and make a nice kit which is in the range of what could be worn in the formerly mentioned time frame. (Albion Crecy and Sherriff) I would like to go with some armour. Kit with German influenceĪfter now nearly owning 2 swords of the 14th cent. Some things may still be in Unsorted section, especially if they didn't follow a standard naming convention and I was unsure about categorizing them.Posted: Mon 06 Nov, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: A 14th Cent. I finally got around to this and used a batch script on the directory contents and somethings might have been chopped off (I caught and manually fixed the list here for accomplished_athlete, scale_breaker-talent, and transcendentsuffering since the levels were originally axed as separate substrings because of whitespace)
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