Favorite armor.

"But if the Mongols came before the Manchus, how is that logically possible?"

? The mongols never used silk armour in great quantity as it was expensive and lacking, on the other hand the manchu bannerman wore excessive silk as protection.

"I am quite certain that the Mongols were the first to wear silk as a protection against arrows."

I do remember reading that some turkish people wore it before them. And if I wasn't mistaken so did the Jin. Its not hard to believe considering silk has been around for a long time.

I'm most interested in european 14th century armour - when the armour developed from simple maille to advanced plate armour. I'm actually currently working on a suite of armour from the early 14th century - a combination of maille, leather and plate armour. It will look something like this:

http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drakter/1300sla/1300slafr .htm

/Mikael

You're surely an interesting person, Mangudai

(btw, welcome *back* to AE)

Brigandine armor,  if I am correct was an armor used by the Spanish mainly,  it was made of layers of hard leather strips that were riveted together,  a soldier could repair it,  it was pretty light(about six pounds) and very sturdy.

can also be made of metal plates.

My favorite... mountain pattern scale, an armour exclusively produced in China (and possibly Korea). It's like the final step in the evolution of scale armors (scale->lamellar->Mountan pattern scale)

http://www.flatbow.com/shanwenkia/ that website explains what it is

I've only seen it rendered in art though, if there are any remaining suits of it still existing, they aren't on display.