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*Important information on Shipping/Insurance: due to the deceptively light weight of silk you may not wish to risk inadequate shipping/insurance for higher priced objects like girdle belts and hairnets. Please contact me and I can research the best and most cost-effective options.

Silk Garters or long ribbon - approx. 110cm long, +/- 12mm width and woven in one length (which can be cut as a pair in order to add buckles and strapends) 20/2 silk, colours currently available in stock pictured: royal blue with thin red border. Garters can be made in custom lengths and to your preferred colours.

Provenance: Museum of London braid No.450 from London deposits of the 14th century which 'could have been either girdles or spur leathers since their narrow width of 8.5mm to 12mm would have been appropriate for either purpose' - p.133 Textiles and Clothing c.1150-1450 Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, Crowfoot et al

*Additional note on aiglets and belt fittings: when working on commissions, what I do is to supply the silkwork but on request, I can also make aiglets of copper alloy, or send a period accurate buckle and strap-end from a reputable UK maker - at cost - ready for fitting with rivets.

Although we know that silkwomen made various types of braids, girdles and ‘corses’ (belts); we don’t have evidence as to whether these came as finished items (with aiglets, buckles and strap-ends) or whether the purchaser had to take them to a girdler to have these fitted. And there was a Girdler’s Guild. In St Eligius in His Workshop https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45... (also known as The Goldsmith and the Young Couple) by Petrus Christus (Flemish, 1449: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) a sample short-section of wide girdle can be seen - look at the shelf in the goldsmith's shop, with a buckle, strap-end and three decorative mounts. A sumptuous red girdle lies across the counter spilling into the viewer’s space, and seems to be waiting its fittings.