[Archers] 15th Century Archer Portrait

[Garth Groff]

M'Lord Barre,

My suspicion about the shafts is that they are probably all about the 
same length, but were arranged in sort of a "cascade" effect by the 
painter for ease of execution, or to better show that they are arrows. 
Fletches all bunched together might be a painters mess.

I'm not sure about helical fletch. Possible, but I can see that well 
anymore.

Yours Aye,


Lord Mungo Napier, Just Back from the 18th Century at Colonial Williamsburg
On 12/12/14 8:12 PM, barysears wrote:
> 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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