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Do you know of any... headwear?
Then all those other things that will assault a freelancer and beg for time took over. Organising or re-organising things, getting smart about how to do invoices, keeping track of finances, sourcing goods that I could sell on markets, preparing workshops, flyers, business cards and so on. The decision to do a blog, and the time that went into it. Projects usually came (and still come) in clumps as well, tearing huge rifts into plans and schedules. And Textile Forum came into my life and took over for a few weeks each year (and will do so next year). In short, I did not get around to do much writing and research for the other book project that was still in my figurative desk drawer. And I sort of fell into a research hole.
Then came the opportunity to work again on that project. Let's call it... Dusty Old Bookproject, or DOB for short. I started, did some stuff, and ran against a wall because what I had thought would be a slight restructure and extension... was not. It needed a full re-thinking, re-working and re-structuring, and I could not see that yet. So I did some things on and off, but it really didn't come along very well. And there was still all the other freelancing stuff to be taken care of, which takes a huge chunk of time, continuously.
Then along came Exciting New (to me) Bookproject, and I suddenly rediscovered that research is such a huge heap of fun. Pure unadulterated fun in sitting in the library, going through books, taking up snippets of information and learning new things, new angles, new concepts. So now I am working on both of them, DOB and ENB, and instead of having a bad conscience... I feel good, because I am actually doing more work on DOB now than I did before ENB came along.
And I'm at a stage for DOB where I am looking for more material. More specifically, I am searching for links or books or hints on where some more extant headwear might be found. Date range is from about 500 to 1500, though I might narrow that down for the final book. Geographic range is Europe. And I'd be delighted if you could tell me of some, because just like the proverb says: Four (hundred) eyes see (much) better than two.
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Well, the first that comes to mind is the silk headdress from Coppergate that I just read about a couple of days ago. Now of course I'm having trouble finding that source right now... but it's the cap that is being discussed here: http://docs7.chomikuj.pl/116468363,0,0,NORSE_WOMANS_LINEN_HEAD-DRESS.pdf
I'll be back for more links! Good luck! =)
I dont´t know of any published headwear, but there is the fragment of a straw-hat from Lengberg and a makeshift linen bonnet (15th century). They are briefly mentioned here: http://www.uibk.ac.at/urgeschichte/projekte_forschung/textilien-lengberg/forschungsprojekt-ma-textilien-lengberg.html.
There are cap-like hats from the Netherlands photographed with huge photos (and references to other articles about them) in:
Brandenburgh, C.R. 2010. Early medieval textile remains from settlements in the Netherlands. An evaluation of textile production. Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 2(1); 41-79.
http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/jalc/02/nr01/a02
(It includes a cap from Dokkum that is similar to the cap from York that Fanny mentioned.)
Narrower caps are also in:
Heckett, Elizabeth. 2003. "Viking Age Headcoverings from Dublin." Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
I'm sure I'll press 'hit comment' and remember some more.
sorry, 'post comment', not 'hit comment'.
Also, a blue felt hat from England:
http://www.concealedgarments.org/cache/28593/
This hat from Novgorod: http://www.booksite.ru/enciklopedia/clothes/3.htm
And http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/ has a straw hat from Kempten (Bild: 016174)
In 'Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450' (the museum of London book) there's a lump of fabric tentatively identified as one of these sort of hats: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsXfvVcsLrwBO1o39fkF-AP9oGJZwgNawg1cw3GWRWQ4YE7leZ
Thanks again, everybody!
fiofiorina, yes, I would love to have the reference.
paantha, wow - I have the book, and I am using it regularly, but that had somehow really slipped my attention.
Iðunn, thanks for the offer! I think that Icelandic sagas may be a bit much for the project, though, since I'm trying to base it on the actual extant pieces as much as possible...
Just read some info on the so called Orkney Hood - a marvellous garment... I have never seen anything like it! http://www.archaeologyonline.org/Documents/TheOrkneyHood.pdf