Tongueless ring belt origin? -- myArmoury.com

Foong Chen Hong · Posted: Wed 26 Jun, 2013 3:00 pm Post subject: Tongueless ring belt origin?

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRURT9nG2YZzufkRSikScZEuUPUtrN4S_ne-fc0fv2ZUtkrYVxh

Can anyone tell me since when did they start using this type of belt?

thank you.

Mart Shearer · Posted: Wed 26 Jun, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject:

Double ring strap, 1864.
http://books.google.com/books?id=MXVUAAAAYAAJ...mp;f=false

Foong Chen Hong · Posted: Thu 27 Jun, 2013 3:13 am Post subject:

Damn, so they aren't really used in medieval Worried

So what is the most common belt style that used in 13 century?

Philip C. Ryan · Posted: Thu 27 Jun, 2013 6:52 am Post subject:

https://www.google.com/search?q=13th+century+belt&rlz=1C1ASUT_enUS504US504&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=w0bMUcrtI-uN0QGL9YCwCg&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1092&bih=480

http://www.marchand-medieval.com/medieval/lang-en/81-13th

Here are some basic pics. You can get an idea, and go from there.

Lafayette C Curtis · Posted: Thu 04 Jul, 2013 6:19 am Post subject:

What about SCA-style O-ring belts with only one ring (rather than two)? I know they're not medieval, but I've been wondering if their origins really lay with the SCA or if there were other 20th- or 19th-century predecessors.

Foong Chen Hong · Posted: Thu 04 Jul, 2013 6:47 am Post subject:

Lafayette C Curtis · Posted: Thu 04 Jul, 2013 8:28 am Post subject:

But the example you provided was that of a double-ring belt, which is normally worn in a very different way (without knotting, just passing the belt back through the rings in such a fashion that it's pinched in place between the two rings).