“The length of a girdle was also subject to the vagaries of fashion, and in the 13^th and 14^th centuries a girdle often reached almost to the feet of the wearer” (Egan 35).

“Girdles and various other types of belt were made from leather or were woven (usually by manipulating a pack of tablets) from threads of silk, linen or worsted” (Egan 35).

“Examples of 14^th-cenury tablet-woven girdles from London include one 8.5mm wide woven in two colours of silk thread to form alternating bands of pink and green,  or yellow, running width ways”  (Egan 48).