wimple?

Hi, mirjam. Try Wonderful Wimples - Fiddlesticks Knitting. Looks very interesting. Frances

Thank you Frances i have already seen and tried that , , i am thinking of making one as a present , but i think i will first make one for me !! i hoped somebody already made one ,,, some real experience would be helpful mirjam

Oh, yes!! Experience is what it is all about and does help to bounce ideas off someone else. My fingers itched to start knitting soon as I saw the site, but having so much trouble with my knee replacement (20 years old and needs another one) I was just afraid I wouldn't be able to concentrate on it. Maybe I will give it a try, though. Who knows, it may be less complicated than it looks. Frances

Hi Mirjam,

Why not try someplace like a costumer for a ren faire?

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Thank you Maureen interesting site ,,, I also have a book for Theatrical costumes mirjam

Frances i would not say i want to bounce ideas of somebody else i only wish to understand the construction of an Ancient clothing item ,,, mirjam

In the Book Patterns for Theatrical costumes, Garments, trims and accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915, by Katherine Strand Holkeboer , Prentice hall press, 1984 , one can finns Wimple patterns on pages 108-9, 114-5, 292-3 the pattern looks like a rectangle but in the drawings it is worn covering the neck and by clever tucking it becomes a hood like front cover ,,, Thus now i wonder where this other form of a Pipelike hood , came from ? The book, The Historical Encyclopedia of Costume, By Albert Racinet, Studio editions, 1995, shows on page 116 in cahpter The Orient , Christian monks and nuns , the wimple is mentioned as .." the veil, worn over a band of white wool that frames the face , is suggestive of a wimple.

So now i wonder more about the origin of it , mirjam

When I first read the first item I confused a "wimple" with a "snood". According to Encyclopedia Brittanica: "The wimple originally was adopted as a chin veil by Western women after the crusaders brought back from the Near East such fashions as the veil of the Muslim woman. The wimple, usually made of fine white linen or silk, framed the face and covered the neck." "During the Victorian era, hairnets worn for decoration were called snoods, and this term came to mean a netlike hat or part of a hat that caught the hair in the back. In the 1930s the name was given to a netlike bag worn at the back of a woman?s head to hold the hair."

Thank you i knew that , but it is nice to reread it , As a matter of fact i have made Snoods , i made my first one , looking at one my mother has kept , and than found another pattern , Both are crocheted . mirjam