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Mar 22, 2020 · Media in category "Lamellar armour" The following 44 files are in this category, out of 44 total. 20190203 MedievalWarfare 3567 (32512854497).jpg 5,304 × 7,952; 14.35 MB
16th century Tibetan lamellar armor. Composed of iron and leather overlapping, interlocking squares designed to reduce the force of an impact. Breastplate and backplate from a set of "four mirrors", ornamented with gold, 17th–18th century, Met museum. A set of "four mirrors", 18th–19th century, Met museum. Tibetan mounted warriors.
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Mar 21, 2024 · Description. Lamellar armour consists of small platelets known as "lamellae" or "lames", which are punched and laced together, typically in horizontal rows. Lamellae can be made of metal, leather cuir bouilli , horn, stone, bone or more exotic substances. Metal lamellae may be lacquered to resist corrosion or for decoration.
This is a representative example of a Tibetan lamellar armor and helmet. Both pieces show signs of hard use and repairs. By comparison with examples that are thought to be earlier in date, its lamellae are relatively coarse, dark in color, roughly finished, and more irregular in size.
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Lamellar armour consists of hundreds of small rectangular iron, leather (rawhide), or bronze plates (scales or lamellae) which are pierced in various locations and laced together into horizontal rows to the proper length needed to construct a particular armour item. When the lamellae are made of leather they can be hardened by a process such as cui...
Lamellar armour was often worn as augmentation to existing armour, such as over a mail hauberk. The lamellar cuirass was especially popular with the Rus, as well as Mongols, Turks, Avars, and other steppe peoples, as it was simple to create and maintain.[citation needed] Lamellar is pictured in many historical sources on Byzantine warriors, especia...
Lamellar armour reached Japan around the 5th century. The pre-samurai Japanese lamellar armour was called keiko. These early Japanese lamellar armours took the form of a sleeveless jacket and a helmet. The middle of the Heian period was when Japanese lamellar armour started to take the shape that would be associated with samurai armour. By the late...
It demonstrates an armour-making technique used across Asia for over a thousand years and is associated in particular with cavalry soldiers such as mounted archers. The rows of carefully laced, overlapping plates create a tough, flexible armour which helps to deflect and absorb the impact of arrows. View the Lamellar Armour and Helmet in our ...
Mail and plate armour. Mail and plate armour ( plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used in the Middle East, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, Greater Iran, India, Eastern Europe, and Nusantara .
