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==8.1 General Guidelines==
This portion of the MaA regulations will cover the construction and safety of all protective equipment
used on the battle field. All armour must be constructed in such a way as to afford genuine
physical protection for the wearer.
Armour may be constructed from:
* Ferrous metal plates;
* Ferrous rings;
* Leather;
* Padded textile;
* Other materials, such as non-ferrous metals, horn, rawhide or wood.
'''All ferrous metal must be rust and burr free.'''
==8.2 Mail Shirts and Metal Armour==
:1. Mail shirts must extend in length to cover the user’s crotch or below, and the sleeves should cover the elbow when the arm is held straight
out. (amended to allow mail shirts that come to just below the belt but do not necessarily cover the groin for events before 980AD)
:2. Mail shirts longer than this minimum may be split at the sides, the front and back, or just the back. Mail shirts split front and back for riding should be split no higher than the crotch at front and the base of the spine at back. These modifications are period and ethnicity dependent.
:3. NOTES on the construction of mail:
::I) Mail must be constructed from steel or iron rings.
::II) A mail shirt must not have open armpits.
::III) The wire used for the rings should be a minimum of 1.2mm (18 SWG) square or in diameter, and a maximum of 2.2mm (13 SWG) square or in diameter.
::IV) The most authentic mail shirts in Regia’s period are made from 6-8mm (internal diameter) however links up to 10mm (internal diameter) are allowable.
::V) Rings may be butted closed. However, it is suggested that mail should be constructed of alternate rows of riveted and forge welded or solid rings.
::VI) Mail should be constructed so that every link goes into two other links in the row above and two in the row below, unless for the purpose of shaping the garment (see diagram )
::VII) Mail shirts may be vandyked (have triangular extensions) at leg and shoulder (or just leg) as long as the highest split does not exceed the minimum length restriction.
::VIII) Mail shirts may be decorated with no more than two rows of bronze rings at their edges.
::IX) Any mail armour that is constructed from Galvanised or zinc coated steel rings should have the zinc layer removed, at least partially (if some is removed, eventually the zinc will be stripped off in the course of use).
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