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Dawn wrote:
What do these Colonial House hats look like?

The Monmouth cap is a small skullcap, like a beanie or watch cap, but
instead of ribbing it has a double-thickness edge. It is made in fairly
heavy yarn, worsted weight or even heavier. There's a little bump or
button on the middle of the top, and a small loop at the edge that can
be hitched over the button to make a kind of small impromptu pocket.

There's another 17th century knitted hat that some people think may be a
variation on the Monmouth cap; it's taller and has a brim that seems to
hold its shape and stick out flat, sort of like a bowler hat. Peter the
Great brought a couple of them home to Russia after he spent some time
working in the Netherlands (if I recall correctly).

There's a third type that is like the second kind with a floppier brim
that hangs down and gives the hat a bell shape.

All of them were knitted out of wool and then fulled but not usually
completely felted. Some might have been felted too.

=Tamar