Was/would damascus steel be goods for armor material?

I have hear a lot about damascus steel blades in the 10th-15th century but nothing about that sort of steel in armors. Was it used? If not why? Economical reasons? Or the properties of that sort of steel werent appropiate for armors?
 
The most common and cost/weight/maintenance effective armour style of the time when Damascus style steel was something really special was actually maille, which is typically drawn from wire made of fairly mild ferrous materials. In fact a very rigid steel is not only hard to draw into wire and then split with a needle to make the rivet-hole, but it's also more likely to shatter than just bend.

I could see a lot of use for hardened composite steel in later baidana-style ring armours or plate/plated maille, but by the time those become popular European uniform steels were just as good and cheaper to make.
 
The most common and cost/weight/maintenance effective armour style of the time when Damascus style steel was something really special was actually maille, which is typically drawn from wire made of fairly mild ferrous materials. In fact a very rigid steel is not only hard to draw into wire and then split with a needle to make the rivet-hole, but it's also more likely to shatter than just bend.

I could see a lot of use for hardened composite steel in later baidana-style ring armours or plate/plated maille, but by the time those become popular European uniform steels were just as good and cheaper to make.
So, by the relevant time period there was already better steel available?
 
Well, not necessarily uniformly always better, but plenty good enough and made in industrial quantities as opposed to artisanal production. Composite crucible steel continued to be made in Central Asia and elsewhere during the same time too, it just wasn't on a different level from what artisan steels in western Europe were like.
 
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