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Does anyone know of a maille tailor in Europe that isn't Mark Hale from Cap a Pie ( over 2 year waiting list) Thanks in advance Yeah sorry about that, it's somewhat in demand :D Although I have not seen any of his work so can't really say much. You could try the Crusades group. There is someone who...

Yep Friday was down for us but kind of expected that was going to be the case. Saturday was as normal but Sunday was incredibly busy. Have booked in for next year

Full marks to EH for doing that, very impressed

Well rather than spoiled, its more a case of change of direction for us. It's meant I've got more involved in the research aspects which has given me greater access to things and other people than I perhaps would have had. I'm also tending to do various demo's either alongside the trading or as a se...

please tell me that is not a tuft of sheeps wool on that guys head

very sad news indeed - condolences.

dating when what type of rivet appeared when, is always going to be somewhat difficult, especially as maille had the habit of being re used over the centuries. I have a nice example, albeit small, section of maille thought to be circa C14th wedge/flat ring with a few brass links attached plus a repa...

Nice one, glad you had a great time.

Colin Middleton wrote: results in less bloodshed

But what would the sweat and tears mix with

and yes Identity Store are really good, lots of helpful advice so always worth calling them if you are not sure what to get.

Excellent work

Armourer would work and makes more sense, although I have heard and used the term maille maker, but that's more a description of the whole process as opposed to the actual construction of the maille item. thinking along those lines i would not call a person that makes plate armour a "plate maker" I ...

Excellent - for info, I have considered doing something like this for sometime now, the only thing that has stopped me taking it further was not so sure how much of an interest in the UK. So kind of a personal side project - keep me posted, im interested.

Hi Nathan Thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated, yeah the categories with zero is a reminder for me where I need to add things (that is now off, which interestingly, has helped with the site speed a little) The lack of drop downs is because I am currently adding the stock, still creating th...

Whoops - thanks for that.

Also was worried that section would get missed so thanks for proving me wrong on that

Senilis Pravus wrote:Works fine for me - PC, IE9,

You have a typo that I spotted

LOL - Many thanks - just changed that one

steven pole wrote:Hi chap.
I've just had a nose round your website using my macbook on Google Chrome and it's working fine.

Cheers. Hadn't been able to test on Mac yet so thats great

I'm in the process of putting together a new website, running an e-commerce system. Not quite finished yet but would appreciate any comments on it so far. The main website is still in the same location so this test is running off a different url - will move to the main one when this is complete. So ...

Thanks - just investigating different options at the moment.

Is anyone using OpenCart e-commerce on a site

i can't take credit for the brass theory, that was an idea that Nick Checksfield, one of the curators who works at the Wallace came up with. Certainly an interesting idea in my opinion. Oh there is a good example of a shirt with sections of the Qur'an at the Royal Armouries in leeds, yep talk about ...

Did someone mention Cake !

has anyone ventured over to this for trading? Looks like it could be fun

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Now I don't know what level of protection maille and padding might give your head; but I might be interested to at least test it. Maille does have some interersting properties in redistributing the energy. My thoughts exactly :) - always interests me that these properties often get overlooked, espe...

oh yeah appreciate that, although this would not be maille only, we were talking of mixture of good solid padding along with this also. General feeling was that the head would look rather on the large side but it was an interesting thought. What sort of gauge secrets are folk using for this purpose,...

if you want a good beginners guide to maille i can recommend the following link,

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trevor.bar ... r/mail.htm

Out of interest, has anyone come across any info on the the use of maille secrets, I spotted a couple examples at the Wallace Collection a while ago and am currently trying to look for other examples. dates etc. I had a discussion recently at Kelmarsh and then at Berkeley with a couple of groups, wh...

Would removing a section from the arm pit are improve the flexibility. Um well yes, but then it leaves that area somewhat unprotected. If the maille shirt is constructed right and fits properly, you should have no problem with flexibility. It might just need some minor adjustments adding a few expa...

I do have a chainmail shirt and I am amazed how heavy it is and how much is slows you down compared to plate armour. depends what its made of - if its the thick 16 gauge rings or split washers, then yes, but if you go for maille which is closer to the weight of original stuff then no. Shameless plu...

As well as the above, take a look at

Ash http://www.armour-services-historical.co.uk

Duncan http://www.aplaisance.co.uk/index.html

i had someone say "I want to buy this for a present but don't want to spend that much" he did though