Lame (armor)

English-made Greenwich armour sabaton, 1587–89 Antique Japanese (samurai) sode (shoulder guards), showing the individual lames connected to each other by silk lacing (odoshi)

A lame is a solid piece of sheet metal used as a component of a larger section of plate armor used in Europe during the medieval period.[1] It is used in armors to provide articulations or the joining of the armor elements.[2][3] The size is usually small with a narrow and rectangular shape.[3] Multiple lames are riveted together or connected by leather straps or cloth lacing to form an articulated piece of armor that provides flexible protection. The armor worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan used lames in the construction of many of their individual armor parts.[4] The Japanese term is ita, which can both refer to the lame or its borderings.[5]

## Examples

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The Dos Aguas armor produced in Valencia, Spain, is an example of a plate armor made of lames. The tassets are composed of three lames, with the inner edge of each turned out at right angles.[6] The design provided the armor strength due to the continuous arch-shaped flange.[6] The Schott-Sonnenberg style produced in Nuremberg also featured a three-lame skirt. The tassets are also composed of lames riveted to the lower lame of the fauld.[7]

## See also

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* Lamellar armour
* Laminar armour
* Scale armour

## References

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1. ^ Webster's II New College Dictionary (3rd ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2005. p. 631\. ISBN 978-0-618-39601-6.
2. ^ Kirkland, J. Michael (2006). Stage Combat Resource Materials: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 273\. ISBN 978-0-301-30710-7.
3. ^ a b Pyhrr, Stuart W.; LaRocca, Donald J.; Breiding, Dirk H.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005). The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480-1620. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 72\. ISBN 1-58839-150-7.
4. ^ Trevor Absolon, The Watanabe Art Museum Samurai Armour Collection Volume I ~ Kabuto & Mengu, p. 33
5. ^ Stone, George Cameron (1999). A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. p. 309\. ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5.
6. ^ a b La Rocca, Donald J. (2017). How to Read European Armor. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 53\. ISBN 978-1-58839-629-7.
7. ^ Oakeshott, Ewart (2000). European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. p. 89\. ISBN 978-0-85115-789-4.

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Components of medieval European armour

Head|

* Armet
* Barbute
* Bascinet
* Burgonet
* Cervelliere
* Enclosed helmet
* Close helmet
* Great helm
* Frog mouth
* Hounskull
* Lobster tail pot
* Mail coif
* Morion
* Nasal helmet
* Sallet
* Spangenhelm
* Kettle hat

Face|

* Visor
* Falling buffe

Neck|

* Aventail
* Bevor
* Gorget
* Pizaine

Torso|

* Breastplate
* Brigandine
* Cuirass
* Culet
* Pauncer
* Plackart
* Fauld
* Hauberk
* Codpiece
* Lance rest
* Coat of plates
* Jack of plate

Arms|

* Ailette
* Besagew
* Couter
* Gauntlet
* Pauldron
* Rerebrace
* Spaulder
* Vambrace

Legs|

* Bases
* Chausses
* Cuisses
* Greave
* Poleyn
* Sabaton
* Schynbald
* Tasset

Pieces|

* Gousset
* Lame
* Rondel
* Arming points

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Armour types

* Body armor
* Vehicle armour
* Barding

Historical armour types|

* Linothorax
* Gambeson
* Buff coat
* Lorica segmentata
* Manica
* Lorica hamata
* Lorica plumata
* Lorica squamata
* Lamellar armour
* Laminar armour
* Scale armour
* Chain mail
* Hauberk
* Transitional armour
* Mail and plate armour
* Coat of plates
* Brigandine
* Jack of plate
* Splint armour
* Mirror armour
* Klivanion
* Breastplate
* Cuirass
* Muscle cuirass
* Plate armour
* Munition armour
* Greenwich armour
* Almain rivet
* Kasten-brust armour
* White armour
* Gothic plate armour
* Maximilian armour
* Lame (armor)
* Karuta (Japanese armour)
* Kikko (Japanese armour)
* Kusari (Japanese mail armour)
* Ō-yoroi
* Dō-maru
* Haramaki
* Tatami
* Boiled leather (cuir bouilli)

Modern armour types|

| Bullet-resistant armour|

| Ballistic plate|

* Ceramic plate
* Doron plate
* Steel plate

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Ballistic fabrics|

* Gold Flex
* Aramid
* Kevlar
* Kevlar KM2
* Twaron
* UHMWPE/HPPE
* Spectra Shield
* Ballistic nylon

Armor systems|

* Armour of the Kelly gang
* Brewster Body Shield
* Steel Bib

* PASGT
* Ranger Body Armor
* IBA/OTV
* Dragon Skin
* CIRAS
* FSBE AAV QR
* HRM
* IOTV
* MTV/IMTV
* PRU-70
* Osprey body armour
* SPCS
* SPC
* MSV

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* Body armor performance standards
* BA 9000

* Flak jacket
* Riot gear
* Bomb suit
* Stab vest

Components|

* Medieval

Fictional armour types|

* Banded mail
* Ring armour
* Power armor

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Helmets

Individual
historical
helmets|

* Agighiol
* Agris
* Benty Grange
* Broe
* Canterbury
* Ciumeşti
* Coppergate
* Coțofenești
* Coventry Sallet
* Crosby Garrett
* Emesa
* Gevninge
* Gjermundbu
* Guilden Morden
* Guisborough
* Hallaton
* Hellvi
* Henry VIII's Horned
* Horncastle
* Iron Gates
* Lokrume
* Meyrick
* Nemiya
* Newstead
* Nijmegen
* Peretu
* Pioneer
* Ribchester
* Shorwell
* Staffordshire
* Sutton Hoo
* Tjele
* Veksø
* Venetian
* Waterloo
* Witcham Gravel
* Yarm

Combat|

| Ancient|

* Attic
* Boar's tusk
* Boeotian
* Chalcidian
* Coolus
* Corinthian
* Galea
* Illyrian
* Imperial
* Kegelhelm
* Konos
* Late Roman ridge
* Montefortino
* Negau
* Novo Mesto
* Phrygian
* Pilos

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Medieval and
Early Modern|

* Armet
* Aventail
* Barbute
* Bascinet
* Burgonet
* Cervelliere
* Close
* Dragoon
* Enclosed
* Falling buffe
* Frog-mouth
* Germanic boar
* Great
* Hounskull
* Jingasa
* Kabuto
* Katapu
* Kettle
* Kulah khud
* Lamellenhelm
* Lobster-tailed pot
* Menpo
* Morion
* Nasal
* Paseki
* Pickelhaube
* Sallet
* Secrete
* Spangenhelm
* Takula tofao
* Turban
* Viking

Late Modern|

* Dragoon
* Pickelhaube
* Pith helmet
* Tarleton helmet

1914–1945|

* Adrian
* Brodie
* M36 (Bulgaria)
* M32 (Czechoslovakia)
* M1923 (Denmark)
* Stahlhelm (Germany)
* M1934/39 (Greece)
* Helmet Steel Airborne Troop
* M33 (Italy)
* M42 Duperite
* M1
* M1C
* Mark II and Mark 4 "talker"
* Mk III
* Netherlands M34
* Hełm wz. 31
* M1940 (Portugal)
* RAC
* SSh-36
* SSh-39 and SSh-40
* M1921 (Spain)
* M1926 (Spain)
* M1934 (Spain)
* M1942 Modelo Z
* SSK 90
* M1926 (Sweden)
* M1937 (Sweden)
* L'Eplattenier
* M1918 (Switzerland)
* Type 92 Tetsubo

1945–1980|

* Bangtan Helmet
* CABAL II
* Czechoslovak Vz. 53 Helmet
* GK80
* Hungarian M70
* Romanian M73 helmet
* Mº 44 E.T.A.
* M59/85
* Hełm wz. 50
* Hełm wz. 63
* Hełm wz. 67
* M63
* M76 Para
* Mk IV
* Mk 6
* Modèle 1951
* Modèle 1978
* MPC-1
* OR-201
* Paratrooper
* SSh-60
* SSh-68
* Swiss M71
* Type 66

1980–2000|

* CG634
* M92
* GOLFO
* M90 (Iraq)
* JK 96
* M59/85
* M87
* PASGT
* Hełm wz. 93
* Hełm wz. 2000
* Sfera
* SPECTRA
* 6B7

2001–present|

* A2 Helmet
* Advanced Combat Helmet
* BK-3 helmet
* QGF-03
* ECH (Australia)
* ECH (US)
* FAST
* 6B47
* Hełm wz. 2005
* Hełm HBT-02
* Hełm HP-05
* IHPS
* KH-B2000
* Lightweight Helmet
* MICH
* Mk 7

Athletic|

* Batting
* Coolflo
* Boxing / Martial Arts
* Bicycle
* Cricket
* Equestrian
* Gridiron football
* Eyeshield
* Revolution
* Hockey
* Lacrosse
* Motorcycle
* Racing
* Scrum cap
* Ski

Work|

* Custodian
* Diving
* Firefighter's
* Hard hat
* Riot protection
* Welding

Other|

* Flight
* Helmet cover
* Mitznefet
* Heraldic use
* Horned
* Mahiole
* Tarnhelm
* Pith
* American fiber
* Winged
* Zuckerman

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