Bezants

Once you have your bezants, what can you use them for? Studying period examples suggests using bezants to decorate garments, purses, cloth-cove red boxes, wall hangings and book covers, and as mounts on belts. Borders with bezants can be applied to tunic necklines and cuffs, the front openings of coats and cloaks, and perhaps hemlines as well.

Using sheet brass and metal stamp tools to produce bezants.

While there are plenty of shiny metal bits used to decorate clothing in Asian and other cultures, for this article we'll concentrat e on bezants in medieval western Europe.