#scale armour

[medievalsnippets]

Source: The Medieval Knight -- Christopher Gravett

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Text: Knight, c. 1210 The central figure wears a mail coat as a main body-defence. It reaches his knees, while the arms extend to form mail mittens. Beneath can be seen a vertically quilted aketon (padded tunic). 1) Mail coat. 2) Mail mufflers or mittens. 3) Interlinked riveted mail rings. 4) Iron scale armour. 5) Helmet fitted with face mask. 6) Rounded style of helmet. 7) Cylindrical style, here with a nasal (defence for the nose). 8) Chin-defence. 9) Conical helmet with conjectural padded lining. 10) Mail coif thrown back to show padded arming cap and lined aventail. 11) Strip of mail to guard leg. 12) Mail chausses over hose, and tied to waist belt. 13) Iron prick sur; the leather is bolted to the terminal, c.1200-1300. 14) Surcoat worn as a super-tunic. 15) Long tunic with Magyar sleeves. 16) Sword, c.1200 or earlier. 17) Sword, c.1200-1300. 18) Sword, .1200-1300. 19) Exploded view of sword hilt to show wooden two-part grip. 20) Mace with moulded copper-alloy head, c.1200

[we-are-knight]

fantasy study 1 by Krzysztof Moszczynski

[bookloversofbath]

Roman Body Armour :: Hilary & John Travis

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[wearemercs]

Druzina by Even Amundsen

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Scale Armour or Lorica, McManus Museum and Gallery, Dundee, February 2020.

The best preserved Roman scale armour in Western Europe. The leather and fabric is still attached.

[adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction]

Scale mail is bead embroidery

Okay, so a post I made about embroidery in fantasy worlds has started getting reblogged a lot again, and I pay attention to the tags people are adding to it. Someone tagged it with “that’s not at all how scale mail is made” because I made a joke about scale mail basically being bead embroidery with specifically shaped beads. And I want to jump on them and argue my point, but also recognise that the person making those tags probably isn’t expecting the person who wrote the post they just reblogged to start arguing with them about a single tag.

So I’m going to lay out my arguement here: scale mail is bead embroidery.

Bead embroidery is made by sewing beads onto fabric. Here is a piece of bead embroidery I did:

It’s made with hundreds and hundreds of seed beads sewing onto backing fabric.

But beads can be all sorts of different shapes and materials. If you just do an image search for beads, you get little roundish ones

And here are some longer, more rectangular ones made of semi-precious stones

And here are a variety of shapes

But if I look for specifically flat, metal beads, I find things like this where the bead is a flat shape with a hole at one end.

And if those count as beads, then surely these count as beads

Shaped pieces of metal with holes in are beads and they’re being sewn onto backing fabric. This is bead embroidery. And this image is taken from a page giving instructions on how to make scale armour.

Not all bead embroidery is scale armour and not all scale armour is bead embroidery (some techniques attach the scales to each other, not to a piece of backing) but there is definitely an area of overlap between the two.

[justanotherfilmfanatic]

The Scale Armour. Maybe even better than the Stealth Suit...

Just kidding, even Chris Evans himself has said the dark Stealth Suit from Winter Soldier is his favourite suit

Credit - mcucapture via Instagram

[ultimaratioregum1648]

Some illustrations of Medieval Russian Cavalry I retouched to feature the colours and coat of arms I designed for House Vojvodin, the ruling family of The Tsardom of Rus’skaya. These illustrations are for a low-fantasy setting of my design with technology equivalent to the late medieval and renaissance periods, where formations of heavily armoured and mounted knights fight alongside armies of pikemen and matchlock musketeers, where medieval-style stone castles are gradually being outsourced in favour of both lavish country estates and devoted military fortifications due to the advancements made in artillery technology, and where rising nation-states in the form of Kingdoms and Empires look beyond the boundaries of the known world in search of greater wealth and territory. In context to the lore of my low-fantasy setting, House Vojvodin is the ruling family of The Tsardom of Rus’skaya, or my fantasy setting’s rough equivalent to The Tsardom and Empire of Russia during the Tsarist Period. (1547-1917)