In French this means ‘boiled leather’, it was a term for leather hardened by heating. Inventories show that a large portion of 13th and 14th century plate armour was made of hardened leather rather than iron, and that whalebone or baleen was also extensively used.
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Kingdom of Riches Blog.
Kingdom of Riches is a Persistant Browser Based Game (PBBG) loosly set in the medieval era. With regular updates, events and new additions, with a great community of helpful veteran players. It is also free to play with no advantage at all to donators, donations go towards development and upkeep of the servers only.
Updates on the game, Sneak peeks, Mythical facts, True facts, Religious facts and more related to the medieval era. The Medieval Era dated from around the 5th Century until around the 16th century.
