[Artemisia] help - AS IN GAMBESON

[Allen Hall]

Greetings Your Excellency and All,

Actually, there is one complete surviving gambeson, that of a French King 
(......hmmm, maybe it survived because it was never used in a battle...). 
It is quite fitted, and as I recall of linen construction.  There's a 
picture of it in _Arms and Armor_.

Commercial gambeson are becoming available now that the re-enactment people 
are demanding authentic gear.  Revival Clothing and Historic Enterprises 
both carry them.  I've got a Revial that I'm pretty happy 
with.....especially when the weather is cooler.  It's very warm in hot 
weather.

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L.J. Richards" <richardslj at bresnan.net>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] help - AS IN GAMBESON


> On another note, am curious --
>
> is it period to use cotton canvas or a very heavily woven linen or ??
> Cotton or wool batting?
> A particular quilting design stitch?
> Any surviving pieces to telll us?
>
> HE Bronwen (who doesn't want to make one but is curious ONLY!) (ha)
>
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