This knitted and heavily fulled round cap is featured in the book ‘The Typical Tudor: reconstructing 16th century everyday dress’ (now available on Etsy). It is based on detailed examination of an extant original and pictorial sources, as follows:

A round cap (16th century) Museum of London, inventory number 5002;

Hans Holbein the Younger (1532-1535) Portrait of an English woman, British Museum, London, inventory number 1910,0212.105;

Hans Holbein the Younger (1526-1528) An unidentified woman, The Royal Collection Trust, Windsor, inventory number RCIN 912217;

Hans Holbein the Younger (1534) Unidentified woman,
Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria, inventory number GG 6272; and

Hans Holbein the Younger (1532-1534) Portrait of a woman, Detroit Institute of Arts, US, inventory number 77.81

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).