Laminar armour only of a breast-plate. While laminar armour was made from hardened seal leather and often knee long, or even longer. However late lamellar armour made from metal (iron or steel or even brass) and could be as long as laminar armour. Both lamellar and laminar armour usually were worn with a high collar (protecting neck and head) integral with one or two laminar pauldrons (used rather as shield than ordinary pauldron). This collar and its pauldrons usually were made from leather and wood. Usually at least one part of an armour (a pauldron) was laminar, but sometimes a pauldron was
Haramaki (armour) cloth undergarment worn around the belly to increase body heat retention during the winter. Haramaki (armour) Haramaki is a type of chest armour ("dou or dō") worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan and their retainers. "Haramaki" were originally constructed with the same materials as the ō-yoroi but designed for foot soldiers to use as opposed to the ō-yoroi which was for mounted warfare. "Haramaki" refers to any Japanese armour which is put on from the front and then fastened in the back with cords. Other types of dō open from the side ("ni-mai dō", "dō-maru", "maru-dō") instead of