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A brief history of armor.

Armor has been worn by all the nations with any pretension to civilization, and its evolution has been along the same lines everywhere, but has not gone equally far in all countries. The first armor was undoubtedly the skins of beasts. The next step in the advance of armor was probably to fasten scales or rings of some harder material on to it. In the earlier armor of this type the strengthening pieces were always put on the outside, later they were often riveted or quilted between layers of cloth or leather. This type of armor  is called brigandine and was largely used in Europe from the 10th to the 16th century, at first for war and later as light armor. In China it has always been the most used form for the better armor. Where the art of weaving was known, armor made of pads covered with cloth, or of several layers of cloth quilted together, was used even after scale armor was given up. Another early type of armor was made of rods, or slats, of wood or bone lashed together with cord or sinew. As soon as the metals became known they rapidly displaced all other materials wherever their cost was not prohibitive. The difficulty of making and working large pieces of metal confined its use at first to comparatively small plates fastened to each other, or to cloth or leather. Armor of this type was very heavy as it was necessary to have the plates overlap to secure complete protection. The Greeks and Romans used bronze, but its use was restricted by the scarcity of the tin required to produce it. Mail, a fabric of interlaced links, is logically the next step and almost certainly antedates plate. Its very perishable nature has prevented much of early date from surviving, and our knowledge of early armor is too incomplete to enable us to be sure on this point. Certainly mail was worn before plate in Europe and probably in the East. The most elaborate and complete armor of plate ever used was in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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To supply our fine hand crafted replica armor at a reasonable price. Unlike other armories, we also offer patterns, and instructions on how to construct your own replica armor.

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Garrett has been a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism since 1985 and has made armor for nearly as long. He has worked as a certified welder and metal fabricator for ten years currently working for Harley Davidson at the York plant.

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