09-19-2007, 10:23 AM
Perhaps in the future everybody will think of Greek armour as thin linen with bronze plate inserts? :wink:
The idea is so new to me (although I read about the thought that the shoulder flaps had bronze plates in it -springiness) that I'm really baffled.
I will take a look to all known armour types with plates in cloth. As far as I remember now nearly everywhere the fastening devises are clearly visible (with the exception of some 13th/ early 14 th AD cloth/leather covered plate armour). To get it right: you think that the plates were not fastened with rivets or something similar but inserted in pockets (from within, removable?), like modern ceramic plates in body protection vests? How were the linen parts put together? Glued or stitched/quilted or just several loose layers? Is it not a very complicated protection compared to the simple plate and strip compositions of the Italian and Spanish people?
Paul M, if you were right, the re-enactment scene will have an even greater problem than now with tube-and-yoke armour. :lol:
The idea is so new to me (although I read about the thought that the shoulder flaps had bronze plates in it -springiness) that I'm really baffled.
I will take a look to all known armour types with plates in cloth. As far as I remember now nearly everywhere the fastening devises are clearly visible (with the exception of some 13th/ early 14 th AD cloth/leather covered plate armour). To get it right: you think that the plates were not fastened with rivets or something similar but inserted in pockets (from within, removable?), like modern ceramic plates in body protection vests? How were the linen parts put together? Glued or stitched/quilted or just several loose layers? Is it not a very complicated protection compared to the simple plate and strip compositions of the Italian and Spanish people?
Paul M, if you were right, the re-enactment scene will have an even greater problem than now with tube-and-yoke armour. :lol:
Wolfgang Zeiler
