Lamellar armour is a type of body armour made from small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron, steel, leather (rawhide), bone, or bronze laced...
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lames, as opposed to lamellar armour, which is made from individual armour scales laced together to form a solid-looking strip of armour. Prominent examples...
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armour was predominantly lamellar from the Warring States period (481 BC–221 BC) until the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Before lamellar, personal armour...
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many types of armour were commonly used at different times by various cultures, including scale armour, lamellar armour, laminar armour, plated mail,...
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the 'Chalgap' lamellar armour similar to the ones used by the equestrian steppe nomads and Sinitic empires to the west and plate armour, found in the...
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armour was scale and lamellar made of hardened leather and iron, laced together onto a fabric backing, sometimes silk. Mail armour was also sometimes used...
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half of 15th century show different combinations of mail and plate armour with lamellar armor and brigandines sometimes worn with a single round mirror plate...
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in war, the use of Lamellar armour (ō-yoroi and dō-maru), previously used as samurai armour, gradually decreased. Japanese armour makers started to make...
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constructed in a different manner have their own separate names, such as lamellar armour where the individual scales are perforated on several or all edges...
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Chain mail (redirect from Mail (armour))
Brigandine Coat of plates Lamellar armour Mirror armour (supplementary plates worn over mail) Scale armour Splint armour Transitional armour Others: Cataphract...
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and lamellar armour as a symbol of their status. Ōyamazumi Shrine is known as a treasure house of Japanese armour. It houses 40% of Japanese armour that...
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Italy. Lamellenhelme are characterized by overlapping plates—a form of lamellar armour—with caps of conical shape and plumes at the top. They also tend to...
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centuries-old lamellar armour to plate armour constructed from iron and steel plates. This type of armour was called tosei gusoku "new armour". Bullet resistant...
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the Middle East. Horse armour also continued to be utilized, albeit rarely, until the early 20th century. The lamellar armour, byang bu'i khrab, continued...
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wide, 0.3 cm thick) Bronze lamellar armour, Warring States period Lamellar armour and helmet, Qin dynasty Qin stone armour The Qin calculated fines in...
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to be armour which is likely not chain mail. The armour in question may have been the lamellar armour mentioned above, or may not have been armour at all...
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This kind of armour prevailed in Central Asia during 15–17c, and could be worn over any armour including brigandines, lamellar armour, chainmail and...
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with both the rider and mount almost completely covered in scale or lamellar armour over chain mail, and typically wielding a kontos (lance) as his primary...
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Lamella (materials) (redirect from Lamellar)
to describe the construction of lamellar armour, as well as the layered structures that can be described by a lamellar vector field. In medical professions...
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their horses in the same way as they did themselves, covering them with lamellar armor. Horse armor was divided into five parts and designed to protect...
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Military of the Ming dynasty (section Armour)
the Chinese wore armour and used shields that were at least partially bulletproof. Frederick Coyett later described Ming lamellar armour as providing complete...
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and armour, including crossbows and dao, and donned heavy lamellar armour. Sometimes, some elite guard units were clad in mountain pattern armour. The...
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armour. Less common is lamellar armour, which consists of small metal scales fastened together to provide flexible protection. A full set of lamellar...
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Lamellar armour traditionally worn by the Koryak people (circa 1900)...
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Coat of plates (category Western plate armour)
to several other armours such as lamellar, scale and brigandine. Unlike scale armour which has plates on the outside or splint armour in which plates can...
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plaque armour Tang soldier in cord and plaque armour Tang soldier wearing a tiger cap Tang soldier in a mural Tang soldier in lamellar armour A Tang general...
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Lorica squamata (category Roman armour)
protection. A similar type of armour, in which the scales are laced to each other and need no backing at all, is known as lamellar armour, while to confuse the...
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typical of the early Muslim soldiers. Armour included hardened leather scale or lamellar armour and mail armour. Infantry soldiers were more heavily armoured...
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Brigandine (category Asian armour)
(sometimes spelled "brigantine"), also called a brigander, is a form of body armour, in use from the late Middle Ages and up to the early modern era. It is...
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individually shaped, this form of armour was probably largely confined to heavy cavalry and elite units. Because lamellar armour was inherently less flexible...
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