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Kristjan Runarsson
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 Posted: Fri 12 Mar, 2021 12:33 am Post subject: Padded jack illustration |
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Hi,
I found this disembodied image on Pinterest, it appears to be from a book which I'd now like to add to my library. Does anybody know the title/ISBN of the book it is from?
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Kristjan Runarsson
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To answer my own question, in case it helps anybody else. It's this edition of 'Medieval Military Costume' by Gerry Embleton:
https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Military-Costume-Author-published/dp/B00Y2RV4Q6
There are later editions and variants of this book that replace the drawings with pictures or re-enactors in pretty decent kit but it's not as good as these drawings. The bit about padded jacks stuffed with tow fibre was new to me. People keep telling me padded jacks were stuffed exclusively with cotton but the English apparently used tow which is logical since it is a waste product of flax processing and the Lübeck jack is stuffed with wool which also makes sense since the Lübeck merchants moved wool out of Scandinavia by the dozens of shiploads .
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Jonathan Dean
Location: Australia Joined: 16 Feb 2019
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According to Jessica Finley ("The Lübeck Wappenröcke: Distinctive Style in Fifteenth-Century German Fabric Armor" in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 13) the Lübeck garment was stuffed with cotton, rather than wool. The Black Prince's jupon was apparently stuffed with wool (it was originally said to be cotton, but the examiner changed this to wool in a later paper), and the Rothwell Jack also used wool in between the linen layers, so it was used to some extent. It would be interesting to know exactly how common it was used, but I'm not sure we can tell unless Sean's uncovered some records of wool being used.
Who is Embleton citing for the use of tow?
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Stephen Curtin
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Hi Johnathan. Regarding the Black Prince's jupon, wasn't it stuffed with cotton wool? Cotton wool is what we in the UK and Ireland call a kind of loose cotton, which has often led to confusion with people thinking that it's a type of wool.
Éirinn go Brách
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Dan Howard
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Yep. "Cotton wool" is unspun cotton. It has nothing to do with wool.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Jonathan Dean
Location: Australia Joined: 16 Feb 2019
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| Stephen Curtin wrote: | | Hi Johnathan. Regarding the Black Prince's jupon, wasn't it stuffed with cotton wool? Cotton wool is what we in the UK and Ireland call a kind of loose cotton, which has often led to confusion with people thinking that it's a type of wool. |
Being Australian, I'm not unfamiliar with the term "cotton wool"  .
Looking at my sources again, it seems I've combined Edge and Paddock's description of the jupon as being stuffed with wool and a footnote in Clothing the Past about how a recent publication described the jupon as being stuffed with wool contrary to Arnold and gotten the wrong end of the stick. Cotton is the most likely stuffing material for the Black Prince's Jupon, but the Rothwell Jack was definitely stuffed with carded, unwashed wool.
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Stephen Curtin
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Thanks for the clarification Johnathan.
Éirinn go Brách
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Harry Marinakis
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Those illustrations are from the Osprey books.
I would take those illustrations with a huge grain of salt. The Osprey books offer no verifiable references from which those illustrations are derived.
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Anthony Clipsom
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| Harry Marinakis wrote: | Those illustrations are from the Osprey books.
I would take those illustrations with a huge grain of salt. The Osprey books offer no verifiable references from which those illustrations are derived. |
Actually, they are from Gerry Embleton Medieval Military Costume Europa militaria Special No.8 (I think the original poster actually identifies their source)
Most of those derived from actual sources are identified in the accompanying text. These include several from the works of Hans Memling (C & E from the St Ursula Shrine , D & F from the Passion), a couple from Schilling's Chronicles (H & I) and one in the bottom corner (P) from Carpaccio's St Ursula.
Anthony Clipsom
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Jonathan Dean
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A is also very clearly from the Morgan Bible, although the way in which the sleeves attach/do not belong to a separate under layer is an odd interpretation of the very clear manuscript style.
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Anthony Clipsom
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| Jonathan Dean wrote: | | A is also very clearly from the Morgan Bible, although the way in which the sleeves attach/do not belong to a separate under layer is an odd interpretation of the very clear manuscript style. |
It is so referenced, though under the alternative title Maciejowski Bible.
Anthony Clipsom
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Jonathan Dean
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Does it say where B is from?
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Anthony Clipsom
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| Jonathan Dean wrote: | | Does it say where B is from? |
No - I don't think it is based on a specific work. The caption references Mancini's description of English archers' jacks and, generically, the paintings of Jean Fouquet. This dates the reconstruction to 1460s-1480s, I presume. I haven't been able to find a specific Fouquet illustration which the image might be from.
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Dan Howard
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B is a fantasy drawing. None of the other cross-hatched items are gambesons or padded jacks - they are jacks of plate.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Jonathan Dean
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| Anthony Clipsom wrote: | | Jonathan Dean wrote: | | Does it say where B is from? |
No - I don't think it is based on a specific work. The caption references Mancini's description of English archers' jacks and, generically, the paintings of Jean Fouquet. This dates the reconstruction to 1460s-1480s, I presume. I haven't been able to find a specific Fouquet illustration which the image might be from. |
Ah, okay. Just a creative reconstruction based on similarly dated styles, I guess?
| Dan Howard wrote: | | B is a fantasy drawing. None of the other cross-hatched items are gambesons or padded jacks - they are jacks of plate. |
How sure are you on that? The Rothwell Jack, although the stitching was covered by a layer of fabric, was cross-hatched. While it's probably 16th century, what's to stop late 15th century makers using the same style of stitching for fabric armour and jacks of plate?
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Harry Marinakis
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| Anthony Clipsom wrote: | | No - I don't think it is based on a specific work.... I haven't been able to find a specific Fouquet illustration which the image might be from. |
As I said.... without good references, I don't believe anything that I see in these illustrations. I could come up with a drawing that would just as valid.
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Anthony Clipsom
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| Harry Marinakis wrote: | | Anthony Clipsom wrote: | | No - I don't think it is based on a specific work.... I haven't been able to find a specific Fouquet illustration which the image might be from. |
As I said.... without good references, I don't believe anything that I see in these illustrations. I could come up with a drawing that would just as valid. |
I see your point, which is why the discussion is about what sources were used is taking place. Looking again at the illustration, stylistically all the illustrations except A, B, J and O seem to be copied from a contemporary original. K & L are unsourced and would need a bit of detective work. Of the others so far unidentified, G is from a Siege of Jerusalem by Titus tapestry, M an unidentified "French manuscript 1450-1470, N is from Heures of Etienne Chevalier by Fouquet.
Anthony Clipsom
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Anthony Clipsom
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This brigandine appears to be the source for illustration J
Armouries catalogue number III.1663. Italian 1470-1480. This is it as reconstructed from a fragmented original.
Anthony Clipsom
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