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Brass armor with helmet, Moro, Mindanao, the Philippines, 19th century
from Runjeet Singh Antique Arms and Armor
Source: runjeetsingh.com
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Kawari kabuto (eccentric-shaped helmets), Japan.
3. 19th century (Edo period)
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User Twitter/X made an all-metal copy of Sauron's armor.
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The whole greatsword scabbard discourse gets me because, like, we know the answer to this one. We've got primary sources talking about it. The answer to "how do you carry a weapon that's more than a yard or so long" is:
- If you don't think you'll need it on short notice and you're lucky enough to have access to a wagon or other means of transport, you don't carry it at all – you stick it in the wagon.
- If you do think you'll need it on short notice or you don't have a wagon, you just carry it in your hands everywhere you go and constantly complain about how dumb and awkward that is, unless you're a professional mercenary and/or independently wealthy, in which case you hire a guy to follow you around carrying it in his hands everywhere you go and he complains about how dumb and awkward that is (though probably not while you're listening).
My next D&D fighter is gonna be a greatsword specialist who has a squire who's always carrying around his big fuckoff sword and complaining about how dumb and awkward it is. Whether or not said squire is going to get fed up with that treatment and stab me in the back with my own sword out of frustration will be up to the DM.
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its funny because like a similar sword in china, the Miaodao also has like specific ways of drawing it in short notice despite it being too long to do a regular draw. My favorite is the partner draw
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WE DOIN' CRIMINAL DEEDS AND EVIL ACTS
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Source: storefrontier.com
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A Hussar’s scale armor, known as a Karacena, Poland, ca. 1645-1683, housed at the Czartoryski Museum, Krakow.
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Phoenician Gilt Bronze Cuirass, 3rd-2nd century BC Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.
Do you have any blog recs for things like armor and swords and stuff like that? Most the blogs I followed have deactivated or have been dead for yrs
I'm afraid I'm only currently following one armor blog. It's @armthearmour. It's very historically-focused rather than fantasy/aesthetic-focused, so it's great if you're looking for historical references! They seem very knowledgeable.
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Phoenician Gilt Bronze Cuirass, 3rd-2nd century BC Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.
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Virginia Hankins - La mujer caballero
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I used to wear a chainmail shirt to elementary school. The teachers never knew what to do about it because there was no section in our dress code forbidding medieval armor.
… Where does an elementary school child get access to an actual shirt of chainmail sized properly for them?
Growing up as a historical reenactor meant that my parents are friends with lots of people who make chainmail. My godsister received a real rapier in fourth or fifth grade, so our unsupervised outdoor playtime was… formative.
my little brother used to MAKE chainmail in middle school. i mean, IN school. at his desk.
teachers objected. my parents went to bat for him. “it helps him focus.” some teachers insisted it was noisy, in which case he was allowed to make origami instead, but for the most part he continued to make chain mail.
he gave me a roman short sword for christmas when i was 14. i think he’s given me a total of 5 swords over my lifetime and like 9 pieces of armor. he just has always loved metal. of course he joined the SCA the moment he heard about it.
since my thing was textiles, i reciprocated by sewing, knitting, weaving, and embroidering pieces for his reenactment costumes. when we got our dad into reenactment, i helped him put together his persona as well. now, we’re welsh on mom’s side, and from all over the silk road on dad’s side. so my brother went with a welsh persona, and that was pretty easy, because patterns from the british isles are well researched and easy to find, and a lot of SCA folks are into that. but dad and i decided to be silk road traders, and that was HARD. it took us years to put together historically accurate costumes. i cut up a lot of used kimonos from ragstock, i tell you what.
and you know what my dang brother did? he learned to make mongolian arrowheads in a weekend. three goddamn days and he was like “here have a dozen, i dun wanna learn fletching so you do the rest.”
anyhow he grew up to be a master machinist and is now making cutting edge medical devices out of memory metal for stabilizing shattered hand bones, so i guess the moral of the story is, chainmail on school children is a good sign probably?
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The remaining elements of an armor garniture made for Sir James Scudamore, attributed to Jacob Halder,
- Weight: 50.4 lbs/22.9 kg
Greenwich, England, 1595-1596, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This armor was likely made in anticipation of Scudamore’s participation in the Anglo-Dutch Capture of Cadiz, and a portrait of Scudamore painted for one of Elizabeth I’s Accession Day Tilts shows the gentleman wearing this very armor in its original blued and gilt form.