LARP Belts

Medieval leather belt

Whether you are a knight, a Viking, a Celt or a pirate, you need a belt to match. This is even more true for women, no matter in which role they appear. Here at LARP-Fashion.co.uk you will find a wide range of medieval belts in brown or black, but also in other colours. A Viking belt, a long belt, a bodice belt, a ring belt - what do you want today? At LARP-Fashion.co.uk we run our own leather workshop. That is why we focus our attention on leather belts for every purpose. We offer you exactly the right belt for your appearance and your costume at the medieval LARP or the medieval market. Take a good look at the belts. Aren't they beautiful? We make belts with loops, buckles or rings as well as LARP belts with decorative studs, double belts, X-belts or Aruthian belts.

And if you want to wear a sturdy and valuable vegan medieval belt, you will find it here. Vegan medieval belts made from Biothane® are not only as high quality as those made from leather, they feel just as good. Water and light resistant, they can accompany you throughout your LARP life.

The belt as the crowning glory of the garb

Leather belts have always been a very special accessory of the garb. One girded himself practically to each opportunity. Already on menhirs from the Neolithic period one finds belts illustrated. Later finds and grave goods already show belts with metal chain links and often then with the legendary belt hook. So if you order a medieval belt called Thor's hammer in our mail-order store today, you can be sure that even his first worshipers wore a similar belt. The belt is more than just accessories.

Women or men, ladies or gentlemen, all adults and every status wore a corresponding belt. If it was not enough for the valuable and expensive leather, they used linen. Linen is more tear-resistant than wool or flax, and such a belt simply had to be tear-resistant in the early and late Middle Ages. Apart from its decorative significance, the belt initially had a very practical one. Before the times of buttons or even elastics and zippers, such a belt had to gather the clothes and hold them together. Throughout the ages, belts naturally changed their style, shape and appearance. In the Bronze Age belts first looked like a roughly cut wide band that was knotted at the front. But over time belts became more finely shaped, cut, sewn and then embellished with all kinds of ornaments.

The Romans invented the belt buckle, a technique that was rediscovered late. In the early Middle Ages, among other things, people wore belts that went around the body three or four times. This way, one had a solid rope at hand right away when one needed it. The upper classes wore ceremonial belts. For the noble ladies, for example, belts were made of silk, brocade or velvet and were decorated with precious stones.

Belts were used to carry and store all sorts of accessories

A medieval belt made of brown or black leather had a number of important functions in addition to the dress code. What you wore on your belt you did not have to hold in your hands. So the belt also functioned as a bag and, above all, as a military baldric. Ring belts were as coveted as they were expensive. Swords, knives, all sorts of cloths, clamps, cutlery, toothpicks, everything found its place in a pocket or compartment in the belt.

The Middle Ages would not have been the Middle Ages if belts had not had a distinctive function. Vikings, Celts, Franks or Saxons, every ethnic group and tribe had its place and its order. In Persia, for example, Christians had to wear a blue belt and Jews a yellow one. In general, belts, their decoration and shape said a lot about the wearer. Bravery, strength, marital fidelity, and even rule over a fiefdom or even an empire were all indicated by the belt.

At the other end of the hierarchy, belts were used to keep prisoners together and to transport them by attaching chains or ropes to their rings. As you can see, a belt is a must, whether you are dressed as an elf, a knight, a Viking or a pirate. The belt from the online shop at LARP-Fashion.co.uk will keep you and your role together.