A new straw hat

11.10.2017 by Rotschopf in Basket weaving, Clothing, Meetings and Visits

After finally being lucky and finding new hat-straw at a reasonable price online, I could work on my favorite craft again, making hats. I did work quite a bit at the Medieval days Bad Windsheim, which I was invited to by German friends of mine as the “Newbie” of the event crew. I made a rather classical modell, but with a little point at the top, I tried to make this model here.

There is really not much to say about the technique which I have not said in my article about my first hat.

Related Posts

The following posts might interest you as well:

The shepherdess – a collection of theme-posts

Here I am collecting posts, that thematically fit the impression of a shepherdess. A work in progress.

Simple coif/cap

I made this simple cap after several depictions and the cut of the Saint Birgitta’s coif, which I would like to use as a day to day piece, alone for work or under different veils, hoods and scarfs. Actually it is quite stupid I did not have one for so long since it is so […]

Late medieval straw hats and a reconstruction attempt

On the occasion of the “Straw hat month April, I have tried my skills at another project, a straw hat in the technique of the Lengberg finds. I had started it last August at our event at Bachritterburg Kanzach. Since I experimented with the technique for  another impression of mine , I still had a […]