Largo Kids Learn How to Make Medieval Armor
Kids in the Largo Library's Tuesday Night Teens group learned how to make chain maille, a medieval craft of interlinked metal rings.
In a lesson on medieval armor and chivalry, Society for Creative Anachronism member, Steve Kraybill, showed students at the Largo Public Library how battles were won. In medieval times life and death depended on a knight’s swift sword movements and sturdy armor. Small interlinked metal rings called chain maille protected knights during battle. Kraybill's 15-year-old son Chris Kraybill became interested in making chain maille four years ago. The presentation by the Society of Creative Anachronism was for the library’s Tuesday Night Teens group, which meets once a month on Tuesday. The enrichment group started in November 2010. “We change the activity month to month. It might be a game, a movie or an arts and craft,” said Julia Gonser, teen …
