LEATHER VIKING GAMBESON

LEATHER VIKING GAMBESON 

This short-sleeved early medieval gambeson, perfect for bowman. Its comfortable cut protecting your body well makes it easy to shoot a bow. A simple, decent leather gambeson will serve you equally well both as the underarmor and decent short mens Viking costume. Pay your attention that this model has not only authentic Norse look and fabrics but also fastens with the historically accurate leather strings.

For your convenience, we can offer two ways of tailoring this mens Viking padded leather armor:

Machine manufacturing, which is means using sewing machine by our tailors, when they will make padded armor by your parameters.

Hand sewing – custom one, when gambeson will be completely sewn by hands of our tailors, stich-by-stich. This custom historical one type offered for additional costs.

The special advantage of this modern gambeson is that it is suitable foe almost all medieval and fantasy events:

SCA

HEMA

LARP events

Stage performances

Medieval festivals

Reenactment events

Base price version, which you can see at photo includes following options:

2 layers of padding (natural sheet wadding 50% cotton, 50% wool);

Natural leather (orange-brown) for outer shell;

Natural (uncolored) cotton or linen for inner shell;

Sleeves’ full-attaching (closed armpit);

Third-length sleeves;

Orange-brown leather strings in front for fastening;

Straight bottom edge;

No fastenings for steel arms.

However, if you need other Viking padded leather armor, additional options will help you create personalized model of padded leather gambeson. All leather colors that we have are available for order. Even if you choose half-colored or quarter-colored padded defense, all we need to know is what colors you prefer and its exact disposition, and we sew that gambison for you. If you want both sleeved and sleeveless gambisons, please use option “Laced sleeves”.

Quantity of padding layer depends on the main armour. If you plan to wear padded armor under the chain mail, so 5-6 layers will be fine. If there will be usual plate armour or brigandine, so 2-3 layers of natural wadding for this quilted gambeson is enough.

If you want, we offer great choice of fastenings and festoons for decoration of your leather Viking clothing. In addition, do not forget, if you plan to use plate arms or spaulders over your padded armor, order leather fastenings for them.

For any changer and additional options, please contact us [email protected].

Benefits, which you will get, if you buy leather gambeson at Steel Mastery:

Custom-made high-quality padded underarmor made of natural fabrics by your individual parameters;

Reliability and comfortable wearing for years;

Product made by experienced tailors, who really know how to make a good armor;

Convenient payment systems (PayPal, Skrill, Visa, MasterCard, American Express);

Flexible return system in case if you don’t like an item.

Check out these models of leather gambesons: Leather sleeveless gambeson, Medieval leather gambeson.

We offer to complete your padded protection with Padded chausses and Padded liners and caps.

In section Gambison you can see all models that we offer for ordering. If you did not find any for your taste and wish, please send us photo and description of the required model and we will make it for you.