SCA Fighting

Current projects

OK, so I'm looking to "upgrade" from SCA sport armour to something more in-period, some research is required, here will be links to armour and gambesons as I figure out what I want:

Armour

• Byzantine Lamellar Armour
• Byzantine Limb Defenses

Gambesons

or aketon, pourpoint, jupon, arming doublet, padded jacks ...

• introductory
• makes handmade gambesons, some info on patterns and some pictures: gambesons.com
• Constructing a Heavy-List Gambeson by Lady Magdalena von Regensburg armingCoat.pdf
• MyArmoury Spotlight: Quilted Armour Defenses of the High Middle Ages
• Mogran Picture Bible manuscript with illuminations of fighting
• Pourpoint of Charles of Blois, 1367, which is now in the Musee Historique des Tissus in Lyon
  • detailed discussion of tailoring
  • another description of tailoring
  • discussion of the elbow section

this picture from http://www.theweebsite.com/cotelande/blois.html

Italian, ca. 1400 and later, The Metroplitan Museum of Art


this picture from http://gambesons.com/inspiration-design

• Ò[the man-at-arms] shall have no shirt up upon him, but a doublet of fustian lined with satin cut full of holes [for ventilation]. The doublet must be strongly bound there, the points must be set about the bend of the arm and the rest before and behind, and the gussets of mail must be sewn on to the doublet in the bow of the arm and under the arm. The arming points must be made of fine twine such as men make strings for crossbows and they must be twisted small and [be] pointed as points. Also they must be waxed with cordwinderÕs cord and then they will neither stretch nor break.Ó(circa 1480) Andrew W. Boardman, The Medieval Soldier in the Wars of the Roses, p. 127.

• Jupon of Charles VI of France, in Chartes Cathedral

this picture from http://www.theweebsite.com/cotelande/blois.html

• midweight linen for the lining, cotton "batting" for padding. heavy or canvas weight linen or cotton for the exterior.
• overcut fabric by about 1inch as when it is quilted the pieces with shrink and potentially misshape. Cut and quilt each pattern piece and then recut, and assemble. Quilt about 1inch vertically. Cover seams with seam binding, or overlock and sew down to aviod bulk.