Posts: 367 Location: Seattle, WA
Thu 22 Jul, 2010 5:52 pm
Armour 1490-1510
After a couple years of putting my soft kit, and armour together, I've decided to start dialing my collection to the turn of the century, 1490-1510. Most of my harness right now is built by Mercenary's Tailor, with my helm from Armour and Castings. It is currently a white harness, but I'm looking for something...different. There are many many threads on painted armour, and black sallets in the forum here, but other than helms I'm not finding anything from that time period related to the armour. Where could I find pictures (paintings) of textile covered or painted armour? I have scene the many pictures of the black sallets, but the surviving armour that's been shown seems to be mid 1500's to the 1600's, with some textile covered armour from early 15th. A bit later or earlier than I'm aiming for. Could anyone shed some light on armour decoration during those two decades? Any european country will work at this point. Many thanks.
This is the closet I've gotten for a surviving piece other than the helms. (photo credit unknown, if it's yours, please speak up, thanks)
And I really like the brass edging on these located in the
Wallace Collection