They can be made at home if one has the necessary rye or wheat straw, marsh hay, or dried bullrushes. They are made of rye or wheat straws about 4 in. Regular straw targets may be purchased from dealers in archery equipment. Having finished all his equipment, the archer will want something to shoot at.
The authors of The Flat Bow, 1936, give instructions: The straw matts are made by tying straw into long, tightly compacted bundles about 4 inches thick, and sewing them into spiral coils. Coiled straw archery matts currently made and sold in France by Lyon Archerie. 1912.Ĭoiled straw matts are still used by competitive archers in some areas, inducing France, and by historical recreationists. From the National Archery Association’s Scrapbook, c. It might seem like she is shooting the wrong way but historically it was common to have archery targets on both ends of the field so everyone could shoot one way, then walk to the other side to collect their arrows and shoot back the other way. A woman shooting next to a coiled straw archery target with a cloth target face. Note that there is no concentric ring target face. Hertfordshire Archery Society at a coiled straw archery target. That is a real type of archery target, common from the 1700’s up until a few decades ago. Front and back of a coiled straw archery target on an easel with a concentric ring cloth target face–from the archery contest scene in Brave.
In the contest they use cloth archery target faces with concentric circular rings fastened to coiled straw matts on portable easels. So this is a look back at the history of target archery, and archery targets, to see where the inspiration for some of the details in the movie came from. The Pixar movie Brave is a fun movie with some great archery scenes inspired by real archery technique and actual historical archery equipment.
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