Nigel Walton

...also plays a large part in ‘TPAC’, mainly involved in historical research, and experimenting with and
evaluating different forms of padding.

As a re-enactor of more than 30 years standing (he started young too!), Nigel has regularly been wearing
padding and metal armour for – oh ages!

Nigel has a lifelong interest in military history, and holds a BA (Hons) in Medieval History and Classical
Archaeology.  He has been involved in numerous different types of film work, and is one of the four founders
of the Anglo Norman living history group, Conquest.
Deborah Lough.

Hi, I'm Debbie, I make clothes!

I also do much of the research into the clothing and other items I make.

I have been embroidering and sewing for over thirty years, and cutting and making clothes for more than
twenty.
(I started very, very young!).

I have been researching and making historical clothing for around 15 years now, and padding for almost as
long.

I was taught to sew originally by my Nana, who had trained in tailoring at an early age.  She needed
something to distract me from the electrical sockets into which I wanted to stick my fingers (to see what
would happen).

I've augmented this over the years with training in theatre, and design, and by studying modern fashion, as
well as by making a personal study of dressmaking, tailoring, embroidery, and fabric and sewing in general.
 

I have also studied the history of dress to an obsessive extent!  (To the point where I can identify most later
garments within about 10 years, and earlier ones within roughly 50 years).

In short, I have a lifelong obsession with clothing - how it is made, and how styles and methods of cutting
and working evolve over time.

Debbie
‘The Padded Armour Company’ is the label under which Deborah Lough makes all of her cloth and leather
‘armour’.