15th century cap

[frualeydis]

I promised noxcat a diagram of the cap I made the day before yesterday and here it is:




You could make it from less or more pieces, but I worked with the scraps that I had. The important thing is to make the opening large enough for both your head and pinned up braids to fit into it. The rest is styling.

ETA: Put it in the list for the Stash challenge on my web site and made a page - just the same info, but easier to link to, since it's all in the same place.

Comments

[noxcat.livejournal.com]

So the tassel is actually the fringed ends of the hat??

Thank you so much!!!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's why the wool needs to be fulled.

/Eva

[noxcat.livejournal.com]

I suspected that it would need to be fulled wool.

About a yard?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

No, much less. My pieces were maybe 45 cm long and then you need a piece almost as wide as the measurement around your head plus seam allowances (since you can alternate direction of the trapezoids you save a little fabric there).

/Eva

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Very, very funky! I love that you recreate "hardly seen" styles, and I don't thnk I've ever seen others make a fringed cap like that.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm afraid that wearing a fringed man's cap may be a sign of at least questionable virtue - all those drawings are from allegories of love and wordly pleasures, which may be a reason why you don't see it done much. But I'm not sure, so I'm pleading innocence until proven guilty ;)

/Eva