Re: Silk body armor

From: Bob Keeter (rkeeter_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/06/05

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    Interesting little tidbit of trivia. . . . Perhaps. . . .

    Muslim soldiers that battled the Crusaders routinely wore densely
    woven silk undergarmets under their metal armor. If an arrow
    pierced the metal, it would pull the silk into the wound.
    The silk would then allow a surgeon to easily extract the arrow
    in spite of the nasty barbs often put on the projectile. Incidentally
    this also kept the arrow from dragging bits and pieces of virtually
     irretrievable cloth, armor, mud, dirt, etc into the wound.

    The lightly armored troops often had nothing but their silk
    underclothes to at least minimize the damage.

    So.. . . . maybe silk has been "body armor" for a bit longer
    than the latest news release. 8-)

    Regards
    bk

    "Louis Boyd" <boyd@apt0.sao.arizona.edu> wrote in message
    news:ctv9ne$8sj$1@onion.ccit.arizona.edu...
    > Paul Saccani wrote:
    >
    >> They have been using silk body armour in Thailand for years now, and it
    >> is
    >> effective. Silk is cheaper than kevlar for them.
    >> cheers,
    >
    > If your enemy's body armor is effective it simply means your arms are
    > inadequate.
    >

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