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A
lame
is a solid piece of
sheet metal
used as a component of a larger section of
plate armor
used in Europe during the medieval period.
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It is used in armors to provide articulations or the joining of the armor elements.
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The size is usually small with a narrow and rectangular shape.
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Multiple lames are
riveted
together or connected by
leather
straps or cloth lacing to form an articulated piece of armor that provides flexible protection. The armor worn by the
samurai
class of feudal
Japan
used
lames
in the construction of many of their individual armor parts.
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The Japanese term is
ita
, which can both refer to the lame or its borderings.
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Examples
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The Dos Aguas armor produced in
Valencia, Spain
, is an example of a plate armor made of lames. The tassets are composed of three lames, with the inner edge of each turned out at right angles.
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The design provided the armor strength due to the continuous arch-shaped flange.
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The Schott-Sonnenberg style produced in
Nuremberg
also featured a three-lame skirt. The tassets are also composed of lames riveted to the lower lame of the fauld.
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See also
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References
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Webster's II New College Dictionary
(3rd ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2005. p. 631.
ISBN
978-0-618-39601-6
.
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Kirkland, J. Michael (2006).
Stage Combat Resource Materials: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 273.
ISBN
978-0-301-30710-7
.
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b
Pyhrr, Stuart W.; LaRocca, Donald J.; Breiding, Dirk H.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005).
The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480-1620
. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 72.
ISBN
1-58839-150-7
.
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Trevor Absolon,
The Watanabe Art Museum Samurai Armour Collection Volume I ~ Kabuto & Mengu
, p. 33
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Stone, George Cameron (1999).
A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times
. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. p. 309.
ISBN
978-0-486-40726-5
.
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a
b
La Rocca, Donald J. (2017).
How to Read European Armor
. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 53.
ISBN
978-1-58839-629-7
.
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Oakeshott, Ewart (2000).
European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
. Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. p. 89.
ISBN
978-0-85115-789-4
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