Sword Belt Parts
1600-1629 (made)
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Man’s girdle and hangers of leather, covered with white silk satin and lined with carnation silk velvet. The girdle comprised two pieces held together with a buckle and hook. It is embroidered with blue silk, silver filé, purl and spangles. It has two metal buckles with rings, one metal strap guard and a hook at each end for fastening. The hangers are embroidered with yellow and blue silk, silver filé, purl and spangles over thick wool padding in a design of two mirror-imaged lions. There are 10 scabbard straps, each held with a metal buckle. The hangers are attached at the top with a metal hook. Girdle and hangers are edged with a ⅜-inch (8 mm) fringe of carnation (now faded to white) silk and silver filé.
Originally there would have been a matching front strap connecting the hangers to the girdle; this has not survived.
Originally there would have been a matching front strap connecting the hangers to the girdle; this has not survived.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts. (Some alternative part names are also shown below)
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| Materials and techniques | Leather, silk, silver, metal; hand-woven, hand embroidered, hand-sewn |
| Brief description | Man's sword girdle and hangers, 1600-29, English; white silk satin on leather, silver embroidery |
| Physical description | Man’s girdle and hangers of leather, covered with white silk satin and lined with carnation silk velvet. The girdle comprised two pieces held together with a buckle and hook. It is embroidered with blue silk, silver filé, purl and spangles. It has two metal buckles with rings, one metal strap guard and a hook at each end for fastening. The hangers are embroidered with yellow and blue silk, silver filé, purl and spangles over thick wool padding in a design of two mirror-imaged lions. There are 10 scabbard straps, each held with a metal buckle. The hangers are attached at the top with a metal hook. Girdle and hangers are edged with a ⅜-inch (8 mm) fringe of carnation (now faded to white) silk and silver filé. Originally there would have been a matching front strap connecting the hangers to the girdle; this has not survived. |
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| Bibliographic reference | John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, pp.89-90 |
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| Accession number | T.58-1913 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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