05-18-2007, 06:53 AM
Magnus, do we have two of the three categories if it comes to linen armour? I don't think so. Why then we can exclude leather as a possible material entirely? There are enough arguments (new for me) in this thread and two others to shatter my persuasion that leather was utterly crap.
I stick with linen armour, it was presumably as cheap and offered better protection, but who knows?
Btw, if I read the test made by a ManningImperial guy that it was very easy to slash through a glued linen armour: glue was seemingly introduced in the discussions to explain the behavior of the shoulder flaps of linen armour when loose (standing straight in the air). When I look to my experience with medieval armour, the motto for cloth armour was: the softer the better; so glue was the last thing I would have put on my cloth armour.
Could hardened leather explain the behavior of the shoulder flaps? Or would it stay in the bent form? If so that would be an argument against leather.
I stick with linen armour, it was presumably as cheap and offered better protection, but who knows?
Btw, if I read the test made by a ManningImperial guy that it was very easy to slash through a glued linen armour: glue was seemingly introduced in the discussions to explain the behavior of the shoulder flaps of linen armour when loose (standing straight in the air). When I look to my experience with medieval armour, the motto for cloth armour was: the softer the better; so glue was the last thing I would have put on my cloth armour.
Could hardened leather explain the behavior of the shoulder flaps? Or would it stay in the bent form? If so that would be an argument against leather.
Wolfgang Zeiler
