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Chain mail (also known as chain-mail, mail or maille) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh...

Mail and plate armour (plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used...

century) worn over mail suits during the 14th century, a century famous for the Transitional armour, in that plate gradually replaced chain mail. In Europe,...

and Southern dynasties (420–589), and mail and mountain pattern armour from the Tang dynasty (618–907). Chain mail had been known since the Han dynasty...

"chain + single-layer robe") is the Japanese term for mail armour. Kusari is a type of armour used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal...

warrior, mailed, unmailed, each foeman in the rush of war. Down-smitten with the strings of bows, the fastenings of mail, the charge! The armour-clad, the...

Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing...

lamellar armour quite different from later specimens. Lamellar armour was often worn by itself or as an augmentation to other armour, such as over a mail hauberk...

various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part...

collectively as "armour". The word "armour" began to appear in the Middle Ages as a derivative of Old French. It is dated from 1297 as a "mail, defensive covering...

Ring armour (ring mail) is an assumed type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation. No actual...

mirrors (a kind of rondel) worn over other armour (usually over mail) as reinforcement. Metal mirrors in this armour were considered as protection from not...

associated with Viking weapons. The richest might have a helmet and mail armour; these are thought to have been limited to the nobility and their professional...

and lamellar armour was superseded by plated mail in the Middle East and Central Asia, remaining mainly in Mongolia. However, laminar armour did appear...

silk. Mail armour was also sometimes used, but was rare, probably due to its weight and difficulty to repair. Mongol archers demanded the armour be light...

warriors with mail armour and shields. With the exception of Poland-Lithuania, which still made use of hussars wearing suits of plate armour, armour in Europe...

Dō (armour) Kabuto Karuta (Japanese armour) Kikko (Japanese armour) Kusari (Japanese mail armour) Lamellar armour Laminar armour O-yoroi Plated mail (tatami-do...

use the mail armour, swords, shields, spears, axes and bows of Northern European warfare. In Tolkien's writings, such Medieval weapons and armour are used...

A mail coif is a type of armour which covered the head. A mail coif is a flexible hood of chain mail that extended to cover the throat, neck, and the top...

of chain armour Kusari tatami gusoku, a suit of chain armour Dou (dō) Plated mail Brigandine Kikko (Japanese armour) Karuta (Japanese armour) Kusari (Japanese...