Name: Children's Hoods
SKU: 4569HZ-1-1-2-1-2-3-1-3
Availability: InStock

Tail Length

short tail, long tail, dagged long tail(wool only)

Color

Red Linen, Burgundy Linen, Dark Green Linen, Oatmeal Linen, Sage Linen, Blue Linen, Gold Linen, Dark Brown Linen, Slate Blue Linen, Purple Linen, White Linen, Black Linen, Parti-colored Linen, Red Wool, Black Wool, Burgundy Wool, Royal Blue Wool, Hunter Green Wool, Purple Wool, Dark Brown Wool, Camel Wool, Patterned Wool, Parti-color Wool

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COLORS & FABRIC

Wool Options:

Please see our Fabric Selection page for current wool color and pattern options. Please don’t hesitate to email call or text us(708-502-1937) with any questions about stock or availability

Linen Options:

White, Black, Red, Royal Blue, Burgundy, Purple

Slate Blue, Sage, Dark Green, Oatmeal, Dark Brown, Gold

Note: Please note, with the difficulty of accurately representing colors on a variety of monitors, the color names are meant as descriptions along with the swatches. Please use both when deciding on what color to order. Also, despite how the colors may appear on your monitor the same color names in Wool, Silk and Linen are different and do not exactly coordinate.

ABOUT OUR MEDIEVAL CHILDREN'S HOODS

Our children’s wear line is based on smaller simplified, versions of our adult clothing, as it was in period. Head-coverings were a critical component of dress in the Middle Ages. Hoods were common with men and women of all classes, and came in a wide variety of forms: long and short tailed, dagged or straight hems, either pull-over or with an open front that was buttoned or pinned closed. Only the sumptuousness of the fabric, elaborateness of the dagging, or extreme length of the tail distinguished the hood of a duke from that of a villein. In general, the most extreme version of this style with the longest tail was typical in the mid to late fourteenth century, while the shorted tail was most common before and after this time. This design has an open front that can be closed with your own pin, or you can add your buttons to customize its look. Any of these hoods can be ordered with short or long tail in any of the colors listed (subject to fabric availability).

HISTORICAL INSPIRATIONS

Drawing after a detail of a misericord in Glouchester Cathedral circa 1350, Glouchester, England

Drawing after the Visconti Hours circa 1390 in The National Library, Florence , Italy

Drawing after a 14th century extant hood from a churchyard in Herjolfsnes Greenland, in the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Drawing after a detail of the painted ceiling in the Hall of Justice circa 1354 in The Alahambra, Granada, Spain

Drawing after a detail of the ‘Book of Hunting’ of Gaston Phobeus, MS. Francais 616, circa mid 14th century in the Bibliotheque National, Paris, France

Drawing after a detail of the Romance of Alexander, MS. Bodley 264, circa 1340 in the Bodeleian Library, Oxford, England

Drawing after Status de L’Ordre du Saint Esprit, MS. fr. 1274, circa 1353 in the Bibliotheque National, Paris, France

Drawing after The Poems of Piers the Ploughman circa 1377 in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, England

Drawing after Les tres belles Heures de Notre-Dame du duc Jean de Berry MS. 11 060-61l circa 1380 in the Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Brussells, Belgium