Chain mail|Tienda Medieval.- Swords, armas medievales, decoración medieval

Coats of mail are protections made with wrought-iron rings, steel, aluminum arranged so that each ring is threaded at least four other tissue forming. In Castilian also known as breastplates. As a complement to the chain mail was used to cover and protect executioner head.

Coats of mail piece

Roman armies introduced Lorica segmented , and continued in use among the auxiliaries and legionaries during the imperial period. The Roman chainmail made of iron was, ring that sometimes exceeded three mm in diameter and used the familiar pattern of 4 and 1. Often half the rings were closed, whether they were punched from the plate or made with welded wire, and the rest were riveted. The rings were closed a roughly square section, namely, the thickness of the metal was similar to the difference between the outer and inner diameter. Riveted rings were usually of circular section. There is evidence that the rings were usually tin or gold.

Lorica segmentata Roman Legion

La coat of mail was made from the form of long shirts that offer great resistance to cuts and was probably invented by the Celts in the century to V. C. and used by Romans, Throughout the Middle Ages and until the sixteenth century. Although offered great resistance to cuts, was vulnerable to weapons of thin pointed arrows, other than riveted rings. This protection has been used even in the twentieth century as a defense against the fragments of metal that they covered the impacts on the interior of the tanks in the First World War.

The chain mail usually had no sleeves or were too short. The shoulders were protected especially by a U-shaped piece attached to the upper surface behind a row of rings and dropping forward of the U arms around his neck and attached to the front by a metal fitting in a riveted buttons. This piece used to be lined with a strip of folded and stitched skin. For the auxiliary cavalry and some officers this piece was shaped more like a layer circular united front with a pin.

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For maximum protection and comforthe wore a padded room below the chain mail. The mesh protects well the cuts and bruises perforator, but protects quite bad bruising, unlike the armor plates that distribute the force of the blows down the whole length of the plate. That's why interior padding multiplies the effectiveness of the mesh.

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