Padded Armour

[Marcus Aemilius Longinus]

Without context the photo contributes little to the subject. I seriously doubt that this dates to the middle ages.

I only posted this up as a picture of what I had made as I had promised in my first post. It was not intended to further the discussion in any way.

The garment I made and am advancing is only intended for use under other armours(mail in particular) as I understand that the linen would tear easily enough from blows from most sharp weapons. It is only designed to provide a thick layer of padding under the mail in order to stop blows that dont penetrate breaking bones and the like, something the leather vest
many reenactors wear would not do so well. The reason I stuffed it as such was that the Arlon relief that I previously mentioned seems to show something which resembles what may be a stuffed garment. The same is also said for the illustrations of reliefs in the Roman military dress book by Graham Sumner which again may show stuffing in such a way as I have done so. I realise that none of this may act as proof of anything other than the possibility that they used it

For straw as padding material I see how you have more or less disproved the theory compared to other materials. I wont waste our collective time arguing over it when I have no evidence to back it up . I only really chose that as a stuffing material because A it was the only authentic material I had on hand and B because I was curious wether the theory that I quoted in my first post would be effective.