Padded Armour

[tlclark]

This is a really informative and friendly discussion guys- well done, we're all loving it!

have you though of layering-

(outside) linen/felt/linen for fringes (inside) with the felt being maybe 2/8th thick

maybe I'm not getting it- please feel free to correct me- but the fringes as you have discussed look like they are from a seperate underlying layer but does this mean there HAS to be as many layers on the inside of your core as the outside?

When you see these up close, they have edging around all three sides, front and back.

Now, we can't be certain, but it seems we have exterior layers around a cloth core, like a sandwich, like this.

The only reason I say this is if each layer was thinner like this, it would be easier to do 3/4 complete sets with fringes, thus creating the huge numbers often seen on sculpture, without ending up with the body part made of 8+ layers of felt.

Yeah this is a problem that I have. Aitor thinks that the ammount of layers I have suggested is getting ridiculous and I am inclined to agree with him. I am working on the assumption that the pteruges are integral, as in the linothorax. If that's the case, it makes the layering really complicated, but I may find some work arounds.

Bascially I think the evidence supports two things for certain.

1.) Woven or cloth-faced pteruges sandwiched around a cloth core manifested by the fringe and edged or sewn around three edges, the fringe being the natural by-product of a woven method.

2.) Multiple layers of pteruges.

There are two other things that I think are suggested by the evidence, but not necessarily proven.

2.) pteruges and a subarmalis that are integral, like the linothorax
3.) A subarmalis body that has the same basic sandwich construction as the pteruges.

Thanks,

Travis