Posts: 1,576 Location: Bergen, Norway
Sun 07 Dec, 2008 7:29 am
While I have a couple of polyons laying around, I haven't gotten around to mounting them yet.
However, here is a picture showing the padded leggings, and how the mail is attatched.
If you look at where the mail and padding meet on the left leg, you can see the leather strip which is riveted to the top of the chause.
This strip is then sewn to the padding.
(At the time when the picture was taken, the stitcing was going up, which is why you can see the leather.)
The chause are cut to shape, and laced at the back. Theoretically, I could have had them closed almost down to the ancle, but my riveted mail skills are not all that great. The lacing does however give a very thight and sleek look, which is the way it looks in the manuscripts (this COULD be bad drawing skills, of course, as variations in body shape and proprtions are not the forte of high medevial artists)
While I have no real evidence for doing it this way, it works really well, and looks the way it should. If i where to do it again, I would do the same, but have the mail go higher up, under the padding,
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