Leather lamellar armor

Leather lamellar armor

We would like to share this awesome and rare item with you – a copy of lamellar armor, worn by Jurchen warriors of the Eastern Xia (1215-1233 years). Are you confused? Don’t worry, we will tell you now.

 For entire five centuries, in the X-XV centuries, there were lived the Jurchen people on the lands of Manchuria, Central and North-Easter Chin and Primorsk Territory, who used armor very actively. They peaked in period from the 1115 until 1234 year. Nowadays, plates of the local lamellar armor are being excavated on the Primorsk Territory quite often. Findings from excavations from Krasnoyarovskoye, Shaiginskoye, Lazovskoye, South-Ussuriysk and Gusevskoye settlements told us a lot of the Jurchen armour.  

Yes, we could start our story about this armor like this way… Or, we could tell about Cataphract outfit, Chinese body protection, Avarian lamellar armors, Kerch lamellar defense, Old Turkic lamellar cuirass, Khudesutu Khuyag…

We think we will spot on the feature, which they all have in common:

Yes, “Everybody could be that guy” ©, as all of them differ only in materials, shape and quantity of holes in lamellas. Only these small plates differ, an armor in general remains the same: corset-cuirass, consisted of two halves, with fastenings on the shoulders and sides, spaulders and skirt-tasses for hips protection. 

Well, for creating of this armor, we were inspired by Arab painting of the XIV century, telling about fights with Mongols.

Let’s enjoy together an illustration with fights of Mongol cavalry troops from manuscript “Jami' al-tawarikh” of the XIV century, which is kept in German National Library (Berlin):

Or, civil strife:

Are they good? Definitely yes! Especially, their armor is very good. Awesome lamellar cuirasses of Mongol equestrians! We reconstructed one of such leather armor set for you. 

Remembering origin of lamellar armor, Steel Mastery artisans developed comfortable, light and good protecting leather lamellar armor set, which is ideal for reproduction of look and armament of Mongol warrior. It does not restrict movements of fighter and keeps combat qualities at the same time. There is functional leather armor for real connoisseurs.

Fragments of this custom-made leather armor are made by our craftsmen of the best thick tanned leather, interlaced with strong cord and trimmed with soft and firm leather.

We shortened skirt-tasses of this leather lamellar armor, so unmounted warrior could fight comfortably. However, if you have a flock of hot-tempered horses, so our artisans will gladly make tasses for mounted warrior.

Order this battle ready leather armor now and feel the hot wind that ruffles feather grass and spreads bitter armoise over the Great Steppe, carrying you into fearful, but so beautiful times of the Mongol conquests.