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Really, thinking of this as linen armour is the wrong way to do it. Rather than linen armour, which is glued together, it is glue armour, which is scaffolded b
by blahedo 16y ago
Really, thinking of this as linen armour is the wrong way to do it. Rather than linen armour, which is glued together, it is glue armour, which is scaffolded by the linen. Like modern laminate materials, the weak point is not the binder but the substrate; in this case it is the glue itself that would provide protection. The linen, being flexible, holds all that protection together in a useful non-rigid crystalline form that retains maximal coverage.
- groks 16y agoActually, it is the opposite. Think of a Formula 1 car: it is strong because it is made of carbon fibre, not because it is made of glue. Carbon fibres have 5 times the tensile strength of steel. They are spun into yarn, which is woven into cloth, layered into a mould, and held rigid by plastic resin. All the strength comes from the carbon fibres. In the case of this armour it is the linen which provides the strength, not the rabbit glue. "Linen is among the strongest of the vegetable fibers, with 2 to 3 times the strength of cotton." Wikipedia.