…when I was wearing the smurf hood at Hunting Season in July I recognized that the hood was sliding at my head *sigh* – ok, therefore I decided that I need a cap underside my hood and decided to try to make “Tailed cap, second half of 15th century” (thanks to Lady Fiona for her great help and for pointing me to to Ladies Marie Chantal Cadieux’s page concerning headdresses
(btw. pattern based on the book: the medieval tailor’s assistant – making common garments 1200-1500 at page 199)

…and here now the result and pictures of the progress
(and I am very looking forward to your comments )

…and here some photos – my first smocking
I tried some “direct smocking” (based on the book “The Art Of Manipulating Fabric” – Colette Wolff)
I have to admit that I didn’t read the text concerning the smocking, but the pictures are very clear – that’s a good basis until I have enough time to read the text – I used the Outline stitch on page 127 and the pictures at the pages 138 & 139 in this book are also very helpful

…and here a photo of the used pattern for the tailed cap -
I followed the instructions of the book “tailors assistant” but I think the 75cm for the tails is a little to long because I can easily wrap every tail up to the top and back to the beginning – but that’s not very bad because in this way I can hide the endings in the beginning part of the tail.

I think it looks at my head like the “The type of coifs that are worn underneat the hoods” – pictures of period examples at the homepage of the beautiful and very inspiring Lady Marie Chantal Cadieux (there is a picture of a lady with a red hood and a shorter white cap underneath) and here some great links at her homepage: The secrets of burgundian costuming & References for burgundian costuming – Hoods, chaperons, coifs and beggins – such a cool homepage