The Armour Archive

Lac d'amour: The tie of love.
A scarf given to one's love, bounding them,perhaps used to save the love's life.

"John Garland wrote: in the beginning of the thirteenth century, is a good
authority for the use by our women of small hand-looms. In these
they wove, in flax or silk (often mixed with gold), the "cingulae"
or "blode-bendes" so often mentioned, supposed to be gifts between
friends for binding the arm. But the idea suggests itself that this was oftener the gift of the fair weaver to her favored lover, to fold round his arm
as a scarf in battle or tourney, to be ready in case it was needed
for binding up a wound, and had possibly served as a snood to bind
her own hair.