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Vambraces are "tubular" or "gutter" defenses for the forearm, developed first in the ancient world mainly by the Romans, but only formally named during the early 14th century, as part of a suit of plate. Made of either leather, sometimes reinforced with longitudinal strips of hardened hide or metal (a crafting method named "splinted armor"), or from a single piece of worked steel and worn with other pieces of armor. Vambraces are generally called forearm guards, with or without separate couters, or elbow guards.

Often archers would wear bracers, a variant of vambraces, to keep the inside of their forearm from getting hurt by the string of the bow or the fletching of the arrow.

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• The Armour Archive examples and construction information for replica vambraces