[SCA-AE] How do you make this hat?

[Sarah Michele Ford]

On 10/18/06, Krista Traini <hildasca at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to make the interesting black hat that the woman on the
> left is wearing in the February panel of Les Tres Riches Heures du Jean for
> the Duc de Berry?
>
> http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/february.jpg
>
> I'm not on any costuming lists, and I have a limited amount of time online,
> so could not do more than a cursory search.  Can anyone help?

If you have access to a copy of Sarah Thursfield's "The Medieval
Tailor's Assistant", she has a pattern for a similar hat - I believe
she calls it a "black bonnet" (or maybe that's just what I've started
calling it).  I've made it from her pattern and quite like it.

Alianor de Ravenglas