by David Falcone D’el Phoid Originally published in Punta Dritta, March AS XXXV (2001) Those of you who have read, or perhaps tried your hand at my last published project, the Simple fencing coif, will recognize much in this design for a cape. If anything, it is even simpler than the coif. The design is […]
Author: Rapier Webwright
by David Falcone D’el Phoid Originally published in Punta Dritta Februaly AS XXXV (2001) If you know how to sew, there are any number of coifs you can make. I don\’t know how to sew. But I figured, “Hay, how hard can it be?”. The answer is, not very… if you can get the machine […]
By Francois Henry GuyonOriginally published in Punta Dritta January AS XXXV (2001) My father sent me a clipping from the paper the other day. Entitled “Cut down to size” [1]; it details some rapier demonstrations at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, England. It is a short six-paragraph article, which talks about Queen Elizabeth the first’s […]