#pauldron

[wearemercs]

Two-handed swordbreaker by Asterisk Kome

[artschoolglasses]

Pair of Pauldrons, Austrian, 1550

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art

[treasures-and-beauty]

Leather pauldron by La Forja de Prometeo

[ritasv]

‘Armour’ courtesy of ARW Photography

[armthearmour]

A pair of elegantly chased and etched pauldrons,

Height: 9.1 in/23.2 cm

Width: 8.5 in/21.3 cm

Weight: 1.2 lbs/526 g

Austria, ca. 1550, housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[medievalsnippets]

Chapter 122: The pauldrons or scapulatia The pauldrons that cover the shoulders and shoulderblades should extend over the back of the cuirass toward the spine. But they should not be as they are commonly worn, covering the entire shoulderblade, so that one laps over the other, and they constantly touch and interfere with each other, adding weight without benefit. But if it is made of small lames it works better. On the upper part the pauldron should have a strong ridge down the middle. -Pietro Monte

[foedhrass]

I got a bit of inspiration and made some stuff. Which is now in my Etsy shop.

[coffee-addict-kitten]

Made a pauldron!!!

Ngl this one was HARD. The original pattern only really called for the leaf base.... but when I finished it I thought it might be fun to add some mushrooms. Some. Just a few. It started with the frilly ones and escalated from there 🥲 the embroidery and little red ones were the final additions as far as aesthetic choices went. But apparently I enjoy suffering because while I knew from the get go that I'd be lining the inside to hide all the tails and stitching from attaching the shrooms, I didn't think to add any kind of structure support or padding till the last minute when I realised that fabric alone probably wouldn't hold its shape very nicely. At first it was just a layer of upcycled interfacing from somewhere around the house, which worked fine in terms of stretching out the crochet so it would be more or less symmetrical. But that wasn't enough. It was still kinda floppy and didn't sit right on my shoulder. So I ended up using metal paperclips as boning underneath the fur to really give it that nice solid shape. Final steps were putting in the straps and sewing in the fur lining (I must be a madochist because tell me why I didn't think about how painful it would be to stitch through hot glue in places???) And TAAADAAA, she's more or less done!!

I still need to actually purchase buckles for the straps (I have silver and black but this calls for bronze) and add some decorative buttons but yeah!! Bulk of the work is complete~~