Armor for head

The torse (wreath) is a padded roller made of linen, that is put on the top of helmet. Usually, it's being made in heraldic colours of owner. The torse helps to recognize the warrior during the battle and amortize 70% of all hits in the head. Please send the wished colours to us [email protected]

Butted mail aventail is made of mild steel rings 2 x 10 mm. Type of butting is 4 rings in 1. Avenital is being attached to the helmet with leather strap. Also you can choose blued or stainless steel for your aventail in options. If you want additional decoration (for example, triangle edge or brass rings on the edge), please contact us [email protected]

Butted mail coif with face protection is made of mild steel rings 2 x 10 mm. Type of butting is 4 rings in 1. Also you can choose blued or stainless steel for your coif in options. If you want additional decoration (for example, triangle edge or brass rings on the edge), please contact us [email protected]

Butted mail coif is made of mild steel rings 2 x 10 mm. Type of butting is 4 rings in 1. Also you can choose blued or stainless steel for your mail coif in options. Coif is being worn under Norman helm and other types of helmets. If you want additional decoration (for example, triangle edge or brass rings on the edge), please contact us [email protected]

We recommend you to use such padded collar for better neck protection.  Padding allows taking a punch, that is aimed to the helmet's sides and back of head. The usage of such items is an important issue while armour's choosing. Ignoration can lead to the serious injuries during the medieval battles, tournaments and trainings. This collar is stuffed with natural sheet wadding and fastened with leather belt and steel buckle.  We make such neck protection of cotton or linen of different colours.

Medieval helmet had never been used independently - only with additional mail or padded protection of the head, face, neck and shoulders. Usually, helmet was combined with padded aventail, that is an addition to the Bascinet or Barbute type helmet. It perfectly protects the shoulders and neck, and its high front padded part covers your chin. It is very important while using Bascinet with or without visor. This padded aventail is made of wool and has cotton lining. The lacing on the back side fixes the aventail in a good way. You can use this type of padded aventail together with mail aventail. We use only natural fabric for manufacturing of medieval padded aventail. Different col...

Leather pelerine is made of two parts: outer layer is of black or brown leather, and linen lining. It's fastened with leather belts on the chest. Pelerine totally covers neck, shoulders and collarbones. Pelerine has square-shaped padding and goes good with gambeson and brigandine for a good complex protection.

This padded pelerine is additional protection of neck and shoulders and goes good together medieval helmet, gambeson and brigandine. It shouldn't be ignored when choosing an armour. Such pelerine is not only historically corret, but is very functional. It has cross-steam padding and 2 leather belts with steel buckles for fastening. We use only natural fabrics - linen and cotton - for manufacturing. Different colours are available for order.

This medieval padded aventail is worn under the Bascinet or Barbute type helmet. Its cut provides perfect additional protection for the shoulders and neck. High front padded part covers your chin. Aventail has lacing on the back side of the neck - 10 cm long with 4 whipstitched holes - to adjust and fix this aventail on your neck. This model is cut to fit the inclined shoulders lines and lay on breast, as well as chin covering part. It is being made of 100% natural fabrics. Different colours are available for order.

If you are looking for cool, reliable and just a beautiful helmet choose Burgundian sallet, mostly known as burgonet helmet. Evolved from sallet it become commonplace throughout XVI-XX century Europe. Yep including the First World War, what makes it one of the best medieval helmets. Main burgonet helmet distinctive features were: - Skull with a large peak projecting above the face, - Keel-like, crest or comb running from front to rear, - Hinged cheeckpieces, - Bevor with drawn-up closed visor. Thus, although the helmet did not cover the whole face as heavy closed-type helmets, it provided quite decent protection. As confirmation just remember – it still used in the time o...

OPEN-FACED LANDSKNEHT BURGONET HELMET Meet the replica of German open-faced burgonet helmet.  Burgonets excel from other helmets with such a dramatic decorative element as comb, which however also serve the practical purpose of strengthening and defending the bowl. Cheek-pieces attached by hinges to the sides of the burgonet's bowl. *** Base price helmet includes following options: Welded dome with peak (solid hammered dome at photo); Cheeckpieces with hinge mount; Cold-rolled steel 1.5 mm; Steel rivets; Satin polishing; Brown leather straps. *** As an option, you can order solid hammered dome, another type and thickness of metal, co...

ITALIAN ARMET WITH RONDEL, MIDDLE XV CENTURY In front of you is Italian armet - one of the most interesting and versatile middle ages helmet adorning the rich collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. This helmet reached us, having lost his visor and rondel in the darkness of the ages, but we recreated them with the visor and rondel of his brother Armet, who also posing in the Metropolitan Museum. This armet is a part of The Avant Armour, one of the oldest near-complete armors in the world. It is dating about 1450-1485, was crafted in Corio workshop, Milano, and was belong to Fon Matsch, the owner of Churburg Castle in 1450 and you can see him in Kelvingrove Art...

Chapel with bar grill and mail aventail “Louis” was one of the most popular medieval helmets through XIII-XVII centuries. This simple, comfortable and functional helmet successfully resisted both halberds and the first bullets. Details changed, but the essence - the metal dome with wide brim remained constant, which says a lot about this design reliability. And here is one of the great representatives of the chapel family – Louis, chapel with bar grill and mail aventail. This is stylization for Byzantine helmet with a brim. It comes from southeast Europe region (Byzantium, South Rus, the Balkans), where such medieval war helmets used at XIII-XV centuries. This hand-made Middl...

Bascinet must be the most popular type of medieval closed helmets. Only chapel could compete in popularity with it; though, wearers of these helmets were quite different. Shape of bascinet helmet notably varied not only in different historical period, but also depending on the area of wearer’s living. But, in our humble opinion, spherical conical shape of dome with a center, shifted to the back – this one was the most widespread on the territory of the West Europe. “Roman d'Alexandre”, dated by the XII century with paintings of the XIV century is inexhaustible source in this issue. So, our stylization of medieval bascinet was based on the paintings from this collection of lege...

This model of Tophelm – Helmet with horns – is typical for European cavalryman of XIII-XIV centuries. We made horns as top figure of the helmet.  Such types of medieval helmet was worn over the mail coif, under what liner with stuffed roller was used. Late topfhelm was often worn over close-fitting skullcap cervelliere that in time evolved in bascinet.  Then mail coif was replaced with aventail, that was attached to the under helm (cervelliere or bascinet). Steel armor of such type was often used as a part of full European knight armor. You can use this medieval knight helmet for: SCA HEMA Larp Stage performances Medieval festivals Reenactm...

Leather padded medieval coif There is posh, cool and classy big brother of modest Padded medieval coif. It is as thick, soft, resilient and reliable as its plain linen relative, but it is a tough guy! This coif is perfect as for light trainings with bokkens, so being hidden under the helmet in steel tournament chopper. A knight, wearing it, looks at glance at others with light superiority and it has reasons – who else could impress with such classy and stylish protection. Generally speaking, VIP coif is for VIPs. Lining and wadding are made of the softest cotton; stitching is made with hardest threads. Color of leather may be various, just by your wishes. Think about chic protection ...

Early cabasset (chapel) Here is a pinnacle of the French armorers’ engineering in the XV century. Yes, don’t smile and look so surprised. This “egghead” and funny medieval helmet was the best protection against the most tremendous hand-held weapon of that epoch. But, let’s talk about step by step. Cabasset, Aragón, Spain. 1490-1500, Philadelphia Museum of Art Chapel is an identifiable ancestor of cabasset, as it was the only affordable type of head protection for unwealthy mounted knights and infantrymen. However, such plain and unattractive medieval steel helmet saved many lives. In comparison with expensive and complex closed helmets, cabasset had such u...

Torse - medieval heraldry headband Starting its way as entirely practical elements, after a while, torse and mantling became a symbol or true knighthood and must-have of knight emblem. In the beginning was a torse… No, not like this, Firstly, in time of the first Crusade, crusaders were boiling in their mails and crusader helmets alive and saw agal on the heads of Bedouins. This thick fabric roller, stuffed with crude wool, twisted and tied in a ring, was pressing keffiyeh to bedouin’s head, preventing sunstrokes and cushioning an impact of sabers. By admiring the smarts of the Saracens, knights shamelessly borrowed design of agal, slightly changed it and called a torse. Aft...

A splendid model of late helmet armet is made of firm cold-rolled steel and is a part of Armor Garniture of George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland. Were there better helmets in the XVI century? Probably, yes. More impressive? Never! Dome features two welded halves. Comb of this real knight helmet is hollow inside, made by folding method and decorated with etched ornament. Chin plate of helmet is movable and attached with hinges to the sides of dome. Upper and bottom plates of two-halved visor are attached to the temple parts of dome with single pivot joints. Gorger is also consisted of two plates, as front part, so back one. Pay attention that lower plates of gorget are canted and d...

Padded medieval coif After a good bohurt, any fighter will say you that he is grateful at the most not to piece of iron in his hands, not to his armor and gambeson, not to greaves and bracers and even not to helmet (though, he is grateful to helmet very much). However, after a good bohurts, if a fighter is able to think straight, so he is mostly thankful to his soft, thick and good coif. Even though it did not glint in the sun as a helmet did, but it saved fighter’s head of cerebral concussion. If a fighting man was into luck to wear such big, soft and super-protective padded arming cap, made of the best natural linen, so he do not worry about head protection at all. As tail...