petermorwood:thingstotrack: Bishop’s Mantle 1. A Fine and Rare German (Saxon) Mail ‘Bish
petermorwood:thingstotrack: Bishop’s Mantle 1. A Fine and Rare German (Saxon) Mail ‘Bishop’s Mantle’ 2. Mail Cape 1500-1550 3. Bishop’s Mantle (German or Swiss) 1520-1530 4. Landsknecht with Bishop’s Mantle Look at how tiny the rings are on the first one, contributing to how it hangs like cloth. I wonder if it was a research item when WETA was designing the Mithril shirt in the LotR movies.Compare its rings to those on the main part of the next two, and compare the size of their main rings to the much smaller (and possibly double-layered) rings in the reinforced areas around the throat.And spare a kind thought for the eyesight of the mail-makers who put them all together… :-P -- source link