Padded armour

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Padded armours are those that are made from layers of soft material, gennerally fabric. They might be made from many layers of linen (of which used linen was prefered) or have a couple of layers stuffed with other materials such as tow, rags etc. They might be also have other more substantial material such as horn stuffed in them as well and could be richly covered in expensive materials and embroidered.

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