The cap of St. Birgitta

[aure_]

I've been spending the last three weeks sewing the cap of St. Birgitta, as pictured in in the article by Camilla Luise Dahl and Isis  in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4. Earlier, the cap of St. Birgitta was considered to be alike with the men's coifs,  but Dahl and Sturtewagen argue quite strongly, that the cap is actually similar to women's

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[frualeydis]

You beat me to it! You wicked girl ;)
I've been thinking about making that cap for eight years, but apparently I was a littel slow ;)

/Eva

[aure_]

Heh, I was sure you didn't remember our little competition ;).

But you've been so busy with so many project where as I got paid while doing this cap. It wasn't really a fair game ;).

[padawansguide]

That's really cute! :-)

[aure_]

Thanks, I really like the cap too. I think the model is one of the cutest I've ever seen in any era, so I couldn't really blow it :)

[anonymous]

It's beautiful!!!

Machteld

[aure_]

Thank you so much! *blushes* :)

[goldentriangleq]

Where does it tie? behind the neck? or on top of the head? how long are your tie strings? how do you think it would look with a tablet woven piece as the decoration and strings?

You've done a beautiful job with this and I'm inspired to make one as well now.

[aure_]

Thanks, I'm so glad you like it. :)

It has only one long tie that fastens to the cap on both edges. The tie is then crossed at the neck and wrapped around the head twice. My band is 114 cm, but my head is very small. I really recommend buying the Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4, there's all the information you need.

One of my friend made this kind of head covering by using the method showed on Tempora Nostra's website. The result looked really beautiful, and she said she had seen some images with colorful bands.