Historical sword belt! -- myArmoury.com

Stefan Rasmussen · Posted: Thu 08 Sep, 2011 4:07 am Post subject: Historical sword belt!

Hi there!
I was wondering if any of you our there knows some really nice sites with exampels of period war/longsword belts!

I need to carry a standard length longsword the best way possible. . .

Thanks on advance!

Tod Glenn · Posted: Thu 08 Sep, 2011 6:27 am Post subject:

What period? The common styles of belt vary over time. I am currently working on a 15th century belt for my longsword.

Stefan Rasmussen · Posted: Thu 08 Sep, 2011 8:28 am Post subject:

ahh of course. . .ehm early 14th to late15th century would be great. . .

Adam Bohnstengel · Posted: Thu 08 Sep, 2011 5:32 pm Post subject:

I'm not too knowledgable about this stuff, so I can't really help directly, but your new time frame is still 150-200 years. A dollar says the pros on here come back asking for even more narrow of a time frame. Try to knock it down to a 50 year period to get the good answers.

Gregory J. Liebau · Posted: Thu 08 Sep, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject:

Early 14th century is going to look like this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2009/2273897718_63b30cdc46.jpg

While late 15th century is going to look like this:

http://www.macdonaldarms.com/armoury/images/L...abbard.jpg

There are a great variety of deviations based on the region, decade and sword type throughout this era. Adam is correct - you must narrow your interest considerably to get an educated answer.