Wicked Woollens

There has been a fair bit of debate in recent years as to whether the broad brimmed, heavy knitted cap popular from the late sixteenth centu...

I've been away for a week on the annual family holiday, which in this case means me, himself, my parents, my brother and his wife, himse...

In my last post I was working on the Machault cap, and I've been continuing my research by working up another double cap based on extant...

I was recently asked to do some research into the construction of double knit sailors caps/voyageur caps/tuques (lots of names depending on ...

I was convinced I had already blogged about this, but clearly my mind is going mushy and I hadn't. Anyway, after several people very gen...

Last weekend I spent a couple of days at the Celtic Village at St Fagans National History Museum just outside Cardiff. The occasion was the ...

Every now and then I get a commission that is nothing less than a joy from start to finish. Recently, I was sent this picture, and asked to ...