  We briefly review some examples of confinement which arise in condensed
matter physics. We focus on two instructive cases: the off-critical Ising model
in a magnetic field, and an array of weakly coupled (extended) Hubbard chains
in the Wigner crystal phase. In the appropriate regime, the elementary
excitations in these 1+1 and quasi-one-dimensional systems are confined into
`mesons'. Although the models are generically non-integrable, quantum mechanics
and form factor techniques yield valuable information.
