hip belt

[frualeydis]

My friend Bjorn just bought a hip belt with roses on from Raymond's quiet press. He came over to my place on wednesday and showed it to me. It's gold plated and absolutely wonderful. I don't do second half of the 14th century and metal belts weren't very common for women anyway, but it was soo beautiful.

Comments

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to know if, in the 14th century, the plaques would have been attached to a belt or just linked to each other like a fancy chain?

My gut feeling goes with attached to a belt, but I could be way off on that.

Teddy

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I also have this gut feeling of them at least mostly being mounted on a belt, but I have to check up some pictures. I seem to recall a small statue of a piper with a belt kept together with chains. I'll be back on this.

Eva

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Many thanks

Teddy