a little late and not sure if you have managed to sort things out, but only just come across the post.
As already mentioned by a post earlier, the guy who does a great deal of the tailoring work for me @ Cap-a-pie here in the UK, is Gavin Jones (mailletailor.co.uk, he does a very good ventail, The image attached is from a Forth Armoury coif which was supplied as a kit to Gavin some time ago now and he has since added a ventail, made from Gavins own research, to this. Afraid the photo doesn't really give it justice as its hard to pick out the tailored chin pouch which is really important to get the fit. But it is there.
Gavin and myself have been spending a great deal of time looking at historical illustrations and speaking to curators of maille over this side of the pond, as both of us are trying to get as close as we can to originals whilst trying to keep things in budget for the majority of re enactors. Yes we are well aware of the inadequacies of "modern maille" and I totally agree with Dan's comments, but hope the tailoring service with integrated coif and mittens with hauberks will spur folk on to try and get to the "next level" so to speak.
Certainly if you haven't managed to sort out the ventail yet, then please drop Gavin a line, he is in the process of putting together a portfolio of tailoring work and will be adding that to my website and Gavins soon.
Mark
www.capapie.co.uk
www.mailletailor.co.uk
Pete Vanderzwet wrote: |
Thanks for the quick replies. Icefalcon's top quality mail looks decent, but for the 12th century I'm looking for an attached coif with an accurate ventail; something I've only seen Erik do properly. Hopefully I'm not aware of other vendors that sell this, and someone can point me in the right direction. I'm worried I might be forced to make my own, and I don't have a lot of confidence in my tailoring abilities, lol. |
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