Different styles of baby-wearing (or child-wearing) as seen in medieval and Renaissance illustrations.

An additional style of "baby sling" can be found as the overgarment worn by 16th & 17th century Romani women; for examples of this overgarment worn to hold an infant, see this detail from Brueghel’s Sermon of St. John the Baptist (1566), or Ansaldo’s Flight into Egypt (1620s).

• Flight into Egypt fresco by Giotto di Bondone in the Cappella Scrovegni in Padua, 1304-1306
• Flight into Egypt fresco by Giotto di Bondone in the north transept of the Lower Church of San Francesco in Assisi, 1310s
• Thomas Becket and his family sent into exile, The Queen Mary Psalter (British Library Royal 2 B VII, fol. 292v), c. 1310-1320
• St. Denis preaching (BNF Fr. 2091, fol. 111r), The life of St. Denis, 1317
• The torture of the Jewish mothers, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 158v), 15th century
• Detail of a man carrying a child on his shoulders, supported by a sling, from the left wing of the Calvary Triptych by Hugo van der Goes, 1465-1468
• War Scene by Sebastian Vrancx
• Pilgrims in a city by Sebastian Vrancx