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Belts and girdles are fairly common in illustrations and portraiture from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, so this page instead focuses on extant examples of various styles.
Separate linkspages here focus on wide belts worn by ladies in the later 15th century as well as the styles of plaque belts worn by men and women from the Middle Ages into the early 16th century.
For more on belts and belt-buckles, see these links.
- Met 17.190.147, a girdle with coins and medallions, Byzantine, c. 583; reassembled after discovery
- The so-called belt of St. Madelberte, woven silk, 7th century
- Belt from a Coptic grave in Akkim, 8th-11th century
- A Viking-age belt
- Museum of London A17992, a strap-fitting that linked three leather straps and probably formed part of a sword belt, early 11th century
- Woven silk belt with bar-shaped mounts, c. 1250-1325; buckle and belt-end are c. 1450
- Belt of Fernando de la Cerda, cloth of gold with silver-gilt mounts and enamel, sapphires, and pearls, c. 1270 (also here); see also Emblems and enigmas: Revisiting the 'sword' belt of Fernando de la Cerda
- Belt from the Colmar treasure, first half of the 14th century (also here, here, here, and here)
Belt from the Colmar treasure, silver-gilt mounts (alternating between women's heads and roses) on silk, first half of the 14th century
- British Museum M&ME 1990,12-1,1, the Branko belt, silk embroidered in gold and silver, Byzantium, mid-14th century
- CL20673, fragment of a belt, silk covered in metallic appliqués, c. 1340-1349
- Cleveland 1930.742, a belt for a lady's dress, Siena, c. 1375-1400
- Belt of Friedrichs von Greifenstein, silver with gold plating, 1386
- Met 17.190.963, Girdle of basse taille enamel and silver-gilt plaques, mounted on a woven band, made in 14th century Italy (possibly Venice c. 1400)
- Belts from the 14th-15th centuries
- Silk belt with enamelled buckle and end-plate, Flanders or Burgundy, c. 1450 (also here and here)
- V&A 4278-1857, tablet woven lampas woven in Venice with gilded and enamelled metal made in Lucca, c. 1450
- CL17696, a fragment of a lady's belt, Germany, 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Lady's belt, silk with silver and garnets, end of the 15th century
- White wool belt with ivory buckle, pendant and stops, end of the 15th century
- St. Waudru's belt, brass with enamel and silver-gilt, 15th-16th century
- Museum of London 27.131/1, belt of the doorkeeper of the Star Chamber, leather, c. 1500
- Bride's girdle, Germany, 16th century
- V&A 1610-1855, cast silver-gilt girdle, possibly a bridal gift, Flanders, 16th century
- Belt made by Domenico de Sutrio, 1509
- CL1835, Germany, 1520
- V&A 13-1899, engraved silver girdle made in Paris c. 1520-1620
- V&A T.370-1989, decorative braid thought to have been used as a woman's girdle, Italy or France, c. 1540-1580
- Walters 57.1866, woman’s girdle with hexagram pendant, gilt on silver, enamel, rock crystal; German, c. 1550
- GNM T 3453, silver belt with knife and sheath, Rappersweil, c. 1576-1600
- Louvre OA5999, silver girdle belt, Germany, late 16th-early 17th century
- Lady's silver girdle with the Annunciation, Magdeburg, c. 1600
- Lady's silver girdle with the Annunciation, Magdeburg, c. 1600
- GNM T 3676, silver girdle, southern Germany, c. 1600
- Nordiska museet NM.0219200, silver girdle with gilding, made in Sweden c. 1600
- V&A 484&A-1873, girdle in silver-gilt and enamel, early 17th century
- V&A M.34-1939, belt and hanger in cast and pierced silver, 17th century
- Highland sword belt, 17th century
- V&A M.152 to C-1984, engraved gold, c. 1650
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