The Making of Armor |
Common terms and phrases
15th centuries achieved apprentice Armor decoration armor elements assumed armor plates armor styles armor workshops Armor-Making armorer's arms and armor Augsburg backplate barbute bascinet billets blade bluing brass breastplate Chapel de Fer Close Helmet complete suit contempo contemporary costume craftsmen crossbow cusped edges Damascening decorative technique defense deflect embellishment embossing Emperor Maximilian engraving etcher European fashioned field armor fitted fluted forge the plates German gilding goldsmith Gothic armor guild hammered Hans Burgkmair heat hinges Innsbruck iron knight Lorenz Helmschmid Maximilian Style medieval metal surface metalworkers Middle Ages Milan morer North Italy Nuremberg open helmet ornamental parade armor Pauldron Philippe de Croy pieces plate armor plates of steel poleyn polished princely protection quenching Renaissance Royal Armouries sabatons sallet Seusenhofer shape specialized craft staff weapon straps suit of armor suit of plate sword tassets throughout Europe Tommaso Missaglia usually varnish wearer Woodcut workshops at Innsbruck worn