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Greetings, I'm chad and if you're familiar with my video content you might have come across
the times where I talk about the Gambeson
Gambeson is a type of
medieval armor and is made up of layers and layers of
linen and sometimes they would have wool kind of sewn in between and I compared it through leather armor and
Basically you know
say in greater detail in this that our leather armor as we conventionally think of it as
Depicted in medieval movies and stuff is generally
Alone a ball didn't actually exist in in the way that's shown in this video
I want to talk about why a bit more
Specifically why Gambeson is so much better than leather armor because leather armor did exist in some cases?
I talked about it more in my original video
So I'll let you have a look at that so I can save time here
Well the first thing in just regards to getting hit ok its ability to
stop
cuts from getting to the skin from all these tests that I've seen from
experimental archaeologist to being full-scale documentaries made by the big documentary groups by Discovery
History channel stuff two guys are do it in their backyard at the scholar groom great tests against Gambeson and of course
same thread if you want some of the best ok practical tests of
Sort medieval weapons against medieval types of armor check out same thread
pocket loads of very intriguing ok bits of information that helps me draw my
Conclusions and the conclusion that I draw Gansan has been amazing ok
Easily as effective. Maybe it's not even more so than whether armor in preventing cuts and also
Stamps there are some caveats to mention in regards to this because wood Garrison it also depends on the amount of layers
And this is something that's also an advantage with the Gambeson as well because the flexibility in the level of protection
versus freedom of movement that you can get out of it first of all it's far more malleable than
Leather is so in terms of freedom of Movement
You already have far more that leather and of course then you can add layers
And I wonder how many layers you would need on a gambeson before you get you make it as stiff as what leather would be
It would be so many far more than the max layers in my opinion that are
Heavy Gambeson would have because if you look at heavy gemstones with heaps heaps or layers
They can stop wrong bow arrows, okay?
Not just proceed hunting you know arrows from a hunting bow but from a war bow
That's crazy could let us stop it as well. Yeah, I
Would say the leather did its job
so games look forever I think
Watching razer Edge where I brought it up couple where's our head to the knee
There are you know many armor tests showing leather Deanna prevent arrows?
But the thing is Gambeson does as well leather. It's pretty good at you know stopping a blade
So you prevent you from getting cut but its ability to absorb
One Force Trauma is far less than Garrison because Gambeson is a type of padding as well
The next advantage that Gambeson has over leather is its repair ability okay getting a gut in
in the you know leather armor if
It's either half way through or all the way through you can't really lead to make that cut can you can you can try and?
sew it up
But with the Jemison you just replace the layers that was cut through Force cut all the way through
You can sew it up, and there's a bit of an equivalent thing in regards to that and finally the renewability of the resource itself
Gambeson
most traditionally a made out of linen linen is made out of flax and of course flax is a
And you can plant as much flex as you want and if it gets rain and the weather is decent
You'll get a good return
with cows, okay that that's a farm or
Leila Boreas pass to try and Raise a lot of cows and and
Grazing a cow just for the purpose of its hide is a very wasteful thing especially for the medieval period Now I'm not saying it
Wasn't done
But it's very very wasteful to the point to the fact point where only the richest of the rich would actually do that
You see for the average peasant the cow is a beast of burden
So it's very very useful to plow your field
So that's just the ox
Okay
Let alone actual cows for their milk and things like that and so killing you know
bovine whether it's an ox or ora, you know a cow and I'm sure I'm messing up some of the terms, so
Thank you for correcting me. I know you will but killing these animals just for their hide
Extremely wasteful, and so you have the problem with raising them and they might die in stuff legs
you've got to feed them as well and
Through winter and so that's where hey you need to grow hay and so and funny so for it to get you know large scale
Leather armor you actually have to grow a type of crop anyway. Hey
Store that away to feed through the winter whereas with Garrison, you're growing that anyway
so leather seems to be doubling up the work already and another thing in just regards to the
Usage of the original Materials leather and linen linen would be in production constantly anyway
Because just general clothes are also made out of linen now sort of a leather wouldn't be in production
But the types of uses that would determine the levels of quantity
would vary significantly between the two
Because you know our clothes require far more material than the things you make leather out of it would just necessitate
large larger scale production of Flax and linen as a result
there was an item of clothing factor leather was used for a lot width okay, and that was a
Not not not that not more modern ones
I'm wearing the medieval equivalent, but leather was the primary sole that people used on their shoes
and they would wear out far quicker than
People's clothes would your clothes would last several years hopefully more you especially medieval period But your shoes if there's just leather
My goodness or soles on those would wear
So why do you think the cobbler was such a prominent job back in the day at the guy that repaired shoes now?
There's no way to determine directly that tire
Because the primary use of leather would be for shoes in the medieval period But not only that okay
You know swords scattered as well water skins other things or leather is a useful thing
but if
Large-scale production of leather okay and cattle and you know cattle to get leather
It was as difficult as we can you know infer from looking at
Medieval period And stuff like that that means there'll be less
Quantity of leather that is still needed to be used for very useful things like shoes and so
Just using a massive amount of leather for a piece of armor when you can make a piece of armor
That's not only just as good, but it better in my opinion
offers better protection value because of you know
resists padding resistance
blunt Force Trauma and stuff
just as good as at resisting cut something so and it's also out of material that's ready are readily available and
Constantly being produced and can be produced in larger quantities than leather can be it would be
absolutely
Ridiculous to make a piece of armor out of leather in this context and so these are the reasons why?
Garrison is so much better than leather armor and
Practice, there's one more reason
It looks way better to look. I am a bit buy, so I think Anderson's look awesome. Okay? Thanks for watching guys
I hope to see you again and until then farewell