A quilted shirt is armor made from many layers of fabric .
The quilted quay is often stuffed (depending on the region) with tow , cotton wool , horsehair and sometimes saturated with salt . Depending on the era, region, and estate, it was considered either armor or a sub-armor.
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History
For example, for the knights , the quilting was not armor and was worn by them exclusively as an armor - a shock absorber worn under the armor. But for the infantry in central and western Europe [1] , starting from the Dark Ages until the 15th century , the quilted coat was considered to be armor, and often was the only armor that infantry could afford: in the 15th century, poor infantrymen in poor regions continued to wear the quilted [ 2] . As for the knightly horses , right up to the Hundred Years War , when it turned out that horses without reliable protection under the shower of arrows simply did not reach the archers, horse armor (if any) often consisted only of a quilted coat without chain mail. In this case, before the appearance of the brigantine, the quilting was often worn by knights not only under, but also over chain mail [3] .
With regard to regional differences, for example, in Nigeria, the styganka was considered to be the armor for the local counterparts of knights who rode horses also dressed in quilted clothing . At the same time, their infantry was armless. In the East ( Central Asia and the Middle East ), the quilting was often worn over metal armor in order to protect it from overheating in the sun.
There is a semi-legendary story about the degree of protection of the styganka (Yaroslav Malina, Renata Malinova “Leap into the Past”) about how the Indians really surprised Cortes with the fact that, when tested, an arrow with an obsidian (actually stone) tip, fired by an Indian, easily pierced the chain mail but got stuck in a local very thick quilting .
A thicker than the quilted version of the under- armor is the padded armor or padded jacket . Most often, this name means a jacket of 2–4 layers of flax, stitched with vertical stripes (later stitched with rhombs), and tightly stuffed with tow , straw , rags or cotton wool . When it got wet, the printed stuff started to rot, so whoever could afford it, stuffed with horsehair, which was quite expensive.
See also
- Tegililay
- Doublet (clothes)
- Jippon
- Paper hat
- Padded jacket
- Armrest
- Nabivnyak
- Blankets
- Surco
- Linothorax (ancient Greek carapace from not quilted, but tarred multilayer fabric)
Notes
- ↑ In Scandinavia there was heavy infantry - Vikings dressed in chain mail
- ↑ For example, in the 15th century in Italy, where armor was made, all the infantry were in brigantines , and in England most of the archers were in quilts
- ↑ a quilted variety of surco - gambenzon could be worn over chain mail