Linothorax design/construction

[Chuck Russell]

I'm afraid I have to concur with the consensus here - the idea of "glued linen" (AFIK ) appeared in Connolly's "greek Armies" and was subsequently followed by many ( including me, for a time !) and as Dan says, there is no evidence for it beyond this guess -and certainly it is highly unlikely that the artistic depictions are intended to show quilted armour - but just might be of something like the Jack shown in Chuck's photo - very nice reconstuction/impression by the way - congrats !
Still , as Archimedes points out, whatever the tube-and yoke corselet was made of , it was pretty stiff !
The key seems to be the way the epomides behave.
Can any reconstruction ( leather, glued linen, quilted linen ) reproduce the supposed 'springiness' ? Or even stand up convincingly,if they were simply thrown back ? I have asked this question before on other threads, so can those who have re-constructed spolades please tell us how theirs behaves ?

just getting back to this thread sorry. we tested our jacks with 70 lb bows at 20 yards. broadheads bounced off my jack. bodkins stuck but did not go threw all of the layers. yes, these were sharp, well as sharp as you buy them anyways, period ones are unheat treated and sharpened etc for 15thc too.


question on the pteruges now that i've started making my linothorax. i made all of my layers the same thickness. should i just cut out some of inner layers of the pteruges? since i'm going to be adding a second layer staggered behind them? should i make the 2nd line of pteruges slightly longer to hang down below the line attach to the body? or even at the hem?