[MR] Buff coat?

[James Barker]

I don't know about buff coats on the Mary Rose but there were a number of leather jerkins, 46 individual jerkins are identified. I understand buff coats are made of a specific leather type/finish; the leather jerkins on the MR are just normal vegetable tanned leather. "Before the Mast" has drawings and information on the MR jerkins and taking a look at the glossary buff coats are not listed in "Before the Mast".

 

Also having seen the reply with a vendor selling 17th century buff coats reproductions I would caution one thing, depending on your personal accuracy level, modern suede leather is split on both side with the flesh side (the outside of a cow) removed where medieval suede is just the split side out flesh side in. Having both sides split makes the leather easy to stretch; the strength in leather is the flesh side. 



Hope this helps
Baron James de Biblesworth


 

 




 
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:26:34 -0400
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> From: chessler at usa.net
> Subject: [MR] Buff coat?
> 
> I'm looking for an illustration (or pattern) for a "buff coat". 
> Supposedly, they were fairly common in the 16th C and later, and many 
> were found on the Mary Rose. However, I have not found any 
> illustrations as to what one looked like in period.
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