For what is meaner than swaddling clothes? In shrines dedicated to Amphiaraus, models representing babies wrapped in swaddling clothes have been excavated. Also dangerous is binding infants in swaddling clothes and leaving them alone unattended. The design features a baby in swaddling clothes. The swaddling clothes described in the Bible were bandage-like strips. Swaddling clothes described in the Bible consisted of a cloth tied together by bandage-like strips. St. Mary's cloak, Christ's swaddling clothes, St. John the Baptist's beheading cloth and Christ's loincloth.