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- Products over 90 days old from date of purchase
- General wear and tear
- Excessive wear or misuse/abuse
- Alteration
Terms
We need 7 days to handle and ship your orders. Orders are packed and shipped once a week.Orders placed on the weekend and select holidays are processed on the next business day. Orders with out of stock item(s) may take an additional 14 business days to process and ship.
Shipping and delivery information
Orders placed on armoryworld.com are despatched from our warehouse in Ukraine. We deliver by National Post Service of Ukraine (Ukrposhta). We deliver to all of the countries.The shipment time and price depend on your order’s weight and your country. The site will automatically calculate the shipment price. Delivery timeframes vary by country, please look at the table below for the approximate shipping time.
The terms are counted from the date of shipment acceptance in the post office in Ukraine until delivery to the country of destination.
| Europe | 11 |
| USA/Canada | 15 |
| Australia | 17 |
| Japan | 9 |
If you want this product to be custom, you can get it at Steel Mastery, our recently launched brand of custom made medieval products.
Knights Gambeson
90.00€
from August 7
to August 21, 2016
PRICE: 90.00€
Color:
Size:
Description
The most popular medieval gambeson of X-XII centuries among European knights.
Warriors worn such type of gambeson under the chainmail, and in this case gambeson had 4-6 layers of padding.
If you plan to wear it under brigandine or plate armour, so 3 layers of padding will be enough.
Closed Gambeson had been pulled over the head and had a lacing on the back side of neck.
More often it has being made of linen or wool, but gambesons made of leather or cotton are known too.
Such models are typical for medieval knights, who were taking a participation in crusades and were seeing the war on the Holy Land.
For better protection, we recommend to use this gambeson together with chausses and brigandine.
Gambeson armor has 2 color variants in stock and 4 custom color variants for additional price 20 €, as it would be sewn after order:
| stock | black | uncolored | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| custom | white | green | red | blue |
Top fabric - Cotton
Fastenings - Leather laces
Padding - 100% natural wadding (50% wool and 50% cotton)
Layers of padding - 3 in body part, 2 in sleeves
Sleeves stitching - With holes under the armpits
Type of production - machine sewing
Designed for:
- reenactment
- sca armored combat
- HEMA
- full contact sword fighting
- light fight
- training weapons figh
- staged battles
- larp
Buying our gambeson you get:
- excellent protection
- qualitative and 100% natural fabrics
- materials that allow your body not to overheat during active trainings and tournaments
Ideal value for such money.
If you need an instruction how to take care your gambeson, just follow the link.
Origins
| Period | 10th-12th centuries |
| Location | Europe |
| Social class | Knight Soldier |
General
| Top fabric | Cotton |
| Fasteners | Leather laces |
| Padding | 100% natural wadding: 50% wool and 50% cotton |
| Layers of padding | 3 in body part, 2 in sleeves |
| Sleeves stitching | With holes under the armpits |
| SCA-compliant | Yes |
Sizes chart
| XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL | |
| Chest | 81-87 cm (32-34 in.) |
88-94 cm (35-37 in.) |
95-102 cm (38-40 in.) |
103-109 cm (41-43 in.) |
110-119 cm (45-47 in.) |
120-129 cm (49-51 in.) |
| Waist | 63-69 cm (25-27 in.) |
70-77 cm (27-30 in.) |
77-84 cm (30,5-33 in.) |
86-91 cm (34-36 in.) |
92-102 cm (36-40 in.) |
102-117 cm (40-46 in.) |
| Hips | 81-87 cm (32-34 in.) |
88-94 cm (35-37 in.) |
95-102 cm (38-40 in.) |
103-109 cm (41-43 in.) |
110-116 cm (44-46 in.) |
117-124 cm (47-49 in.) |
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