16th century double-turfed/necked caps by The Tudor Tailor

16th century double-turfed/necked caps

Knitting
December 2020
Any gauge - designed for any gauge ?
7 stitches and 11 rows = 1 inch
US 0 - 2.0 mm
400 - 450 yards (366 - 411 m)
Woman’s cap 21in to 22½in (54 to 57cm) & man's cap 23in to 24in (58cm to 61cm) in circumference
English

These knitted and heavily fulled caps (with linings) are featured in the book The Typical Tudor: reconstructing 16th century everyday dress (now available on Etsy). They are based on detailed examination of extant originals and pictorial references, as follows:

Double-turfed caps (16th century) Museum of London, inventory numbers 5004, A6347, 5013, A7608A;

A double-turfed cap (16th century) Cuming Museum, London, inventory number TN3338/1506;

Hans Holbein the Younger (1526-1527) John More, The Royal Collection Trust, Windsor, inventory number RCIN 912226;

A necked cap (16th century) Victoria & Albert Museum, London, inventory number 1571-1901;

A necked cap (1550-1600) Platt Hall, Manchester Art Gallery, inventory number 1952.340;

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1568) Peasant dance (detail), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, inventory number GG 1059; and

Anonymous (1550) The Rates of the Custom House, both inward and outward, newly corrected, London: Nicholas Hall

The instructions were developed by Sally Pointer based on research by Jane Malcolm-Davies for The Tudor Tailor and are part of the ‘Knitting in Early Modern Europe’ project, which was grant funded but the European Commission as a postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellowship awarded to Jane Malcolm-Davies (grant agreement 656748).