Talk:Lamellar armour

message: I have removed the following sentence, "Lamellar was an armour that, when made out of materials such as leather, facilitated high mobility for a comparably high level of protection."  The sentence does not make a whole lot of sense and the assertion of mobility is contradicted by many comments I've seen from re-enactors.  I've seen multiple interpretations that are quite rigid when complete. Mercutio.Wilder 03:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I've heard from re-enactors, I can tell that a properly laced iron lamellar is only about 20% less flexible than a chain mail, while providing much more solid protection. In fact, rows of lamellae are flexible and, moreover, can move rather independently from each other, easily "telescoping" one into another when the wearer's body bends. Also, lamellae varied greatly in size: some armours had them as long as an adult man's palm, and in other cases they were only about 1-1 1/2" in length, what made for great flexibility, as I imagine - quite comparable to a chain mail. 95.79.107.86 (talk) 09:51, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Benefits" of leather lamellar 

message: Hey there, if one of you has the time and motivation to work some additional information from a very interesting text into this article, check out the following link. The man who wrote it is an absolute expert and has already published quite a bit of his work. (Don't worry, I'm not him pretending to be an unknown admirer!) It's a very unusual-looking form of lamellar that he describes, but it does seem to make sense. Check out the link below, and follow the text link if you want to know more. Trigaranus 18:06, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What he describes is not a lamellar armour per se, but something like a a leather laminar armour, reinforced with iron plates. And, AFAIK, this is actually a misconception, based on archeological findings of lamellae covered with something organic, presumably leather, from one side; it is more viable that rows of lamellae were separated by "gaskets" of soft leather to prevent them from damaging the laces, rather than lamellae being riveted/laced to some strip of hard leather, which would make the armor inflexible. As I've said, correctly laced lamellar was almost as flexible as a chain mail. 5.164.209.229 (talk) 14:46, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Lamellar 

message: What does Sparta have to do with lamellar?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.140.21.59 (talk) 18:25, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spartan Army? 

message: Can we please stop comparing lamellar armor to scale armor, or saying it evolved from, or into scale armor? Yes, both are composed of little platelets of metal, horn, or leather. But they are fundamentally different in that scale armor attaches to a backing (chainmail or leather) while lamellar is attached only to itself.
Theblindsage (talk) 02:47, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Scale Armor

message: Does it actually exist, or are we repeating our Victorian forebears mistake with 'mail', by grouping all the armor made of bands of anything as 'laminar'?Theblindsage (talk) 22:39, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laminar Armor 

message: Without thorough citation, this section should be removed. Other than a few lames found at Birka, in a site that appears to have been specifically used by non-Viking steppe peoples residing in or visiting Birka, there is no evidence of use of lamellar by vikings.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.123.192.248 (talk) 02:49, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viking lamellar