05-18-2011, 01:53 AM
Caballo,
Thank you for sharing that belt, it's an impressive piece of work. I think its an interesting solution to what might have been going on with those double width rivets. I have been wondering about belts with just a few stiffeners/mounts on them from this period and slightly later, whether they were decorated with fancy stitching/painting/tooling or cut outs (like the earlier Gommern belt) or in this case organic materials. Knowing how often objects received surface decoration, it would seem self evident that belts would have been decorated too, but unless I can get my time machine working again, I'll not know for sure! :lol:
Lucianus
Thank you for sharing that belt, it's an impressive piece of work. I think its an interesting solution to what might have been going on with those double width rivets. I have been wondering about belts with just a few stiffeners/mounts on them from this period and slightly later, whether they were decorated with fancy stitching/painting/tooling or cut outs (like the earlier Gommern belt) or in this case organic materials. Knowing how often objects received surface decoration, it would seem self evident that belts would have been decorated too, but unless I can get my time machine working again, I'll not know for sure! :lol:
Lucianus
L.E. Pearson
