[Archers] 15th Century Archer Portrait

[barysears]

Interesting details on the shafts.  Self nocked, sure, but with very 
little space between the nock and fletch. Interesting that not all the 
shafts are the same length. I'm trying to decide if there is a helical 
twist to the fletch.

barre

On 12/10/2014 3:50 PM, Garth Groff wrote:
> Noble Friends of the Bow,
>
> Today I happened to run across this photo on the cover of a book: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_de_Luetz . I didn't take me long 
> to locate the photo on line, along with this brief biography of the 
> subject. You can blow this photo up a bit by clicking on it. I was 
> immediately struck by the arrows he holds. These are apparently 
> gentlemen's sporting arrows. They feature a parabolic fletch, are 
> crested with three black bands, and the color of the shafts suggests 
> natural wood, probably sealed with beeswax and lard, danish oil, or 
> boiled linseed oil. Good images of arrows from our period are hard to 
> come by, but this shows that by the mid-16th century, some sporting 
> arrows were not that different from what we use today.
>
> Yours Aye,
>
>
> Lord Mungo Napier, Lover of Archery History
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