Chinese paper armour (for knights)

[Skybird]

There are several entries to be found on Google and Mythbuster at youtube, but no film on paper armour in action.

Today I saw a German program were they used ancient Chinese scriptures to replicate a body-armour made of paper. Essentially it is paper folded several times, and the poieces you then have get put together like European scaled armour.

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/haupt...verwundbarkeit

Go to 11:30, before it is just other stuff, and demonstrations of collisions with medieval plate armour. From 11:40 on they demonstrate how the armour is being made, and then tested. After the "fight" between the two stuntmen, they demonstrate the armour on a dummy, against a European (sharp) sword, a Longbow arrow with a Botkin head, and a spear they used against cavallry in those times.

Unbelievable, one needs to see it. The paper armour beats European plate armour hands down. Plus it is cooler and lighter.

I heared of these armours, but thought they were a myth.

"Rock, scissor, paper" maybe should be re-assessed...