Mail’s genuine defensive value lay in its flexibility combined with real resistance to cutting and slashing attacks, a combination that kept it in continuous use across cultures and centuries even as plate armour developed alongside it for blunt-force protection. This reproduction recreates a full hauberk in a striking black finish, sized Large.
Chainmail Hauberk, 9mm Rings, Large, Black Finish
Mail is a type of armour built from small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a flexible mesh, historically one of the most enduring forms of body protection in the world. This hauberk covers the arms and complete upper body and thighs, sized Large with a striking black finish. Built from 9mm rings, this piece is battle-ready and suited to full-contact re-enactment combat.
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