Medieval Baby Slings

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
• The torture of the Jewish mothers, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 158v), 15th century