05-24-2010, 08:04 PM
about cotton wadding... I'm not sure what the Byzantine authors ment by that or how it was translated, but I tend to think of cotton in the 17th C England sense - a soft thick loosely woven WOOL material. or as wool batting or felt, loose, or perhaps even a silk batting or felt, as was reported to be in some mongol padded coats. (Considering Byzantium famous as a center of silk production and the known strenght of silk)
I seem to recall reading (10 years ago) about a test of arrow penetration against a thickness of raw silk wadding compared to (vegy) cotton wadding and no suprise silk did far better. I would suspect that wool would be somewhere in between but a lot beter than cotton.
'cuse the speculation.
-Rick
I seem to recall reading (10 years ago) about a test of arrow penetration against a thickness of raw silk wadding compared to (vegy) cotton wadding and no suprise silk did far better. I would suspect that wool would be somewhere in between but a lot beter than cotton.
'cuse the speculation.
-Rick
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