[Artemisia] help

[Dan S.]

Greetings,

I don't miss that Dane Halfhand guy one bit. What a bastard.

Oh wait, that's me :-)

Yes I once had a gambeson made from a moving blanket, but it eventually 
atomized into it's component parts and drifted away on the wind (and woe to 
those who were downwind!)

I will say that making a gambeson out of a moving blanket is something I 
would not recommend. The shell material is rather thin and the batting is 
often made with scratchy horeshair stuff that is treated with chemicals to 
keep mice away (some, I hear, have formaldehyde in them?)

My current one has a heavy cotton shell, a chamois lining and a polyester 
quilting batting that not only lasts longer and is not nearly so scratchy, 
but you can actually wash it (on gentle) much more often and it doesn't 
disintegrate.

See? I wasn't a slob, I was conserving the lifespan of a beloved garment 
given to me by my lady.

Yeah that's it...

In Service,

Sir Daniel the stinky

----- 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 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] help


> Ooooooooh, Your Grace, the story I have to tell about such a gambeson!  A
> good gentle once known as Dane Halfhand [a/k/a now Sir Daniel] did once 
> upon
> a time take his lady and ladyfriend (i.e., me) to an event of many moons
> ago.  We crashed at another good lady's house.  Whilst he was unpacking 
> his
> armour bag for 'something' [only the Green Man knows now] there were 3
> ladies who looked at one another and said - 'what is that unholy smell?'.
> For two of us knew it 'twas not the lovely gentle's home wherein we were
> staying.  Lord Dane looked up from where he was rummaging and said, 
> 'What?'.
> And 3 ladies pointed fingers at said door wherein lived the washer
> contraption and said, 'go thither and clean that _thing_!  See you in the
> morning."  "But it's only been in there 3 days, ummm, guess it's more like 
> 3
> weeks....  Well, uh, yeah right - the washer contraption.... right."  And 
> we
> did hiegh ourselves off to bed and left the poor man to his own devices.
>
> HE Bronwen
> PS:  And one more week and you wouldn't be whistling it to come to you, 
> you
> would be running for dear life the opposite direction. (ha)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Hall" <earlalan at srv.net>
> To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] help
>
>
>> Victoria,
>>
>> I****>
>> Sir Daniel, who is formally of Sentinals Keep (and I think a lurker on
>> this
>> list) had a gambeson made of a moving blanket.  It worked out well.
>>
>> As a matter of fact, I've seen moving blanket gambesons that were so well
>> used, and so seldom washed, that once you took it off, you only had to
>> whistle to it, and it would follow you to the car to be packed......
>>
>> It actually became a biological weapon all by itself, rendering your
>> worthy
>> opponent stunned if you choose carefully to have the wind at your back.
>> However, such a gambeson was something of an obstacle to approaching the
>> fair, non-fighting lasses!
>>
>> Alan
>
>
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