10-24-2007, 06:05 AM
Quote:The information about white cured leather is interesting. Has anyone ever managed to get the shoulders of a leather tube-and-yoke armour to be springy enough, though? I don't recall ever getting an answer to that question.
I can't answer it either because I have pretty well given you all of my knowledge on the topic of tanning, but I think raw-hide would be stiff enough to cause the springiness seen. I mention rawhide because evidently some types of Alum tawed leather are almost as stiff.
The only examples I can find are from modern parchment and drum-head makers so they are very thin. Aslo the tawed leather can be worked to lose the stiffness which seems common for use in garments like shoes.
I am intreiged by the image of bright white leather that is so stiff that a "tube" would be best formed by 4 stiff panels with worked, supple permanent creases between.
Paul M. Bardunias
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