04-09-2007, 10:04 PM
Dan and Theo
In the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness guide 'The Knight' published 1993 a Knight is illustrated being dressed into full armour. Underneath the armour he is wearing an arming doublet. To this doublet mail is attached on the front of the arms extending to the side of the body and onto but not covering the chest and around the neck. Around the waist a skirt of mail is worn.
I am not sure if you will accept this as solid evidence as it is from a children's book but the book acknowledges assistance from The Wallace collection and the Royal armouries. The model shown in the photographs is John Waller who works at the Royal armouries in Leeds so it is probably their reconstructions used in the book.
Graham.
In the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness guide 'The Knight' published 1993 a Knight is illustrated being dressed into full armour. Underneath the armour he is wearing an arming doublet. To this doublet mail is attached on the front of the arms extending to the side of the body and onto but not covering the chest and around the neck. Around the waist a skirt of mail is worn.
I am not sure if you will accept this as solid evidence as it is from a children's book but the book acknowledges assistance from The Wallace collection and the Royal armouries. The model shown in the photographs is John Waller who works at the Royal armouries in Leeds so it is probably their reconstructions used in the book.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
