{"id":793,"date":"2014-09-11T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/?p=793"},"modified":"2014-09-11T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:28:14","slug":"james-gillaspie-16th-century-armor-on-display-at-the-fine-craft-show-albany-center-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/news\/james-gillaspie-16th-century-armor-on-display-at-the-fine-craft-show-albany-center-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gillaspie&#8217;s 16th century armor on display in The Fine Craft show at the Albany Center Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/armor-cropped-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-795\" src=\"http:\/\/henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/armor-cropped-2-201x300.png\" alt=\"James-Arlen-Gillaspie-armor\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Renowned craftsman James Arlen Gillaspie<a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/tulkaz\/16th_century.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;<\/a>s finest <a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/tulkaz\/16th_century.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16th century armor<\/a>\u00a0replica is proudly on display in <a href=\"http:\/\/albanycentergallery.org\/the-fine-craft-show-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fine Craft Show<\/a> at the Albany Center Gallery in New York.<\/p>\n<p>James Gillaspie recreated\u00a0the armor after studying the original, an exquisitely crafted late 16th century piece which is currently\u00a0on display at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallacecollection.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wallace Collection<\/a>\u00a0museum in London.<\/p>\n<p>James is among the finest armorers on the planet and this armor replica, as well as some examples of his other works are featured in many publications.<\/p>\n<p>The 16th century armor\u00a0is currently owned\u00a0by\u00a0Henricus Citie Militia Captain, Dennis Strawderman. The armor was custom made to fit Strawderman\u00a0for use in\u00a0reenactment events at the <a href=\"http:\/\/henricus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henricus Historical Park<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>This notable\u00a0piece of armor is also\u00a0featured in a book by Brian Price\u00a0titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Techniques-Of-Medieval-Armour-Reproduction\/dp\/1581605366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gillaspie specializes\u00a0in the design of custom medieval renaissance armor and also\u00a0designs medieval armor in the English, German, Spanish and Italian styles\u00a0which were worn by knights.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more you can visit his website at\u00a0<a title=\"James Arlen Gillaspie - Artist Metalsmith and Medieval Armour Maker\" href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/tulkaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Arlen Gillaspie &#8211; Artist Metalsmith and Medieval Armour Maker<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To view more images please visit our gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/gallery2\/index.php?level=album&amp;id=55\">16th century armor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned craftsman James Arlen Gillaspie&#8216;s finest 16th century armor\u00a0replica is proudly on display in The Fine Craft Show at the Albany Center Gallery in New York. James Gillaspie recreated\u00a0the armor after studying the original, an exquisitely crafted late 16th century piece which is currently\u00a0on display at\u00a0The Wallace Collection\u00a0museum in London. James is among the finest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,19,30,47,75,131,133,141],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-albany-center-gallery","tag-armor","tag-brian-price","tag-dennis-strawderman","tag-james-arlen-gillaspie","tag-techniques-of-medieval-armour-reproduction","tag-the-fine-craft-show","tag-wallace-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henricusmilitia.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}