Everyone seems to want to know how to armor a female fighter. Here are some of our suggestions, ideas & places to purchase.
Articles – Armored Combat
Aden’s Lamellar
Leather Lamellar with the female form in mind.
Bogetai’s Modified Lamellar
Pictures & Description of this long suit of Lamellar.
C-Belt: Design & Construction
Full directions on how to make your own C-belt
Eichling’s Breastplate & Backplate
Photos, documentation and a complete Pattern to make this project.
Fledgling Fighters
What to wear when you go to a practice for the first time, before you have your own armor.
Jills (Female Cups)
A guide to buying, borrowing or building your own groin protection.
Jürgen’s Armor
Photo & Description of Roman Female Body Armor (based on the movie Gladiator)
Melanie’s Breastplate & Backplate
Photos and description of Melanie’s three piece breast plate modeled after the Churburg set
Merchants
Armor Merchants that sell female specific items.
Talon Two Swords’s Armor
Talon’s breast plate and back plate for a Midrealm Knight.
Valora’s Armor
Valora’s Lamellar and Bauzbands made by Sir Keigan.
Articles – Rapier
Baton Construction
A How To document
Buckler Construction
A How To document
Cloak Construction
A How To document
Rapier Suppliers
A list of places to purchase rapier equipment
Links
· Armor
- Armour Archive
A great web site for anything armor related.
· Armor – Armored Combat
- Black Diamond Metal Arts
Ladies Armor - Evaine’s Armour
Evaine ni MacGreger’s Leather Armor Pattern & Pictures. The best part is the entire set can be made with about 1/2 hide of leather, a mat knife, leather rivets, waxed thread, a big needle and a hammer. - Hip Belt (page missing)
A Word Document showing how to make a hip belt. - Period and SCA Combat
From florilegium.org - SCA Armor: A How-To Manual
A collection of good links for Armoring - Women’s Armor (page missing)
By Lady Yang SuGyong, has an overview of some of the standard body differences. - Women’s Armor Pic Page
Becky’s collection of pictures of different women’s armor.
· Armor – Rapier
- How to Make a Fencing Doublet (page missing)
By Don Andre - Making a Simple Hardened-Leather Rapier Gorget (page missing)
By THL Todde - SCA and Period Rapier Combat
From florilegium.org
4 Comments
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Jetrefilm Says:
Fellow armour enthusiasts:
If you are looking for armor for a female fighter — allow me to introduce you to the best its ever looked to me.
I read your inquiry about armour and wanted to pass along a project some armourers recently did for a film I am writing and directing. The film is called Shroud and is set in the Old West. During the story a suit of medieval plate mail is found.
I retained two very talented armourers by the name of Patrick Thaden (Denton, Texas) and Ugo Serrano (Los Angeles, California). I was very impressed with their craft in creating a suit of plate mail for a woman. I believe it took them 4 ½ days to fully forge the suit. There are no legs as the bottom of the suit will be a battle dress of studded black leather.
I read in your editorial requirements that don’t post URLs except on rare occasions. I hope the administrator will find the sincerity of this response such an occasion.
The below links will show you what they were able to do in 18-guage aluminum. The armour was not made in heavier metals as to grant the actress combat flexibility and mobility. They also made an Irish-style sword out of aluminum as well. There are several flourishes in the armour that might be of interest to you.
They really did a great job, and I am confident either of them would be able to answer your specific question.
The armor:
http://www.jetrefilm.com/shroud1_lo-res.jpg
http://www.jetrefilm.com/shroud2_lo-res.jpg
http://www.jetrefilm.com/shroud3_lo-res.jpg
More pictures of the armor can be found at our website http://www.jetrefilm.com under the little gallery boxes on the home page, or under the Production > Gallery / Sketchbook tabs.
Patrick Thaden
http://www.thadenarmory.com
Ugo Serrano
http://www.ugoserrano.com
Posted on December 29th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
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paul Says:
wow, this is a great culmination of resources. thanks for compiling this! i think i will be spending quite a bit of time here.
Posted on January 9th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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greek helmets Says:
I really like those pictures of the armor. I was also surprised that they were able to forge the armor in just 4 1/2 days. That’s a quick turn around! I usually have looked into getting armor custom made by various Indian manufacturers, but have been disappointed. Hopefully your resources will be a lot better.
Posted on September 27th, 2008 at 9:20 am
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Lady A’Sila Says:
I am not sure that this is the right section for this, but I happened across a gentle selling her armor on ebay. If anyone happens to live near the southern east coast(U.S.), I do believe it’s worth having a look at, as ladies armor is not always the easiest thing to find in the world and I do believe she would like it to go to another lady fighter in the area.
yis,
Lady A’Sila the Mongol Bard