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
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
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Armor
- Armour Archive
A great web site for anything armor related.
- Armour Archive
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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
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
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.
- Black Diamond Metal Arts
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Armor - Rapier
- How to Make a Fencing Doublet
By Don Andre - Making a Simple Hardened-Leather Rapier Gorget
By THL Todde - SCA and Period Rapier Combat
From florilegium.org
- How to Make a Fencing Doublet
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
wow, this is a great culmination of resources. thanks for compiling this! i think i will be spending quite a bit of time here.