Scale leather

[Grease]

This is a great idea. Might as well get started.

I am looking for a design to make a peice of body armour out of leather with a scale design. Any suggestions for threading or something like that?

[Chicken]

Check out this site: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505/page6.html. It shows a variety of different historical methods of assembling both scale and lamellar (which is quite similar to scale).

Plus, that site is just awesome.

[Alabraxis]

you could also just go with the banded style, found on the above site, and have it be scallopped bands. this would allow you to have scale-looking armor with the mobility of segmentata. It would be put together by having a thin strip of leather rivetted at the top of each band to hold them together and allow them to "slip" past eachother.

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| *       *       *       *|
|\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/|
|\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/|
 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

It would end up looking like this, where the *'s are rivets.

[Alabraxis]

http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/lamellar_templarbob/

there's a nice set of instructions for lacing the lamellar plates.