No wonder Court women needed someone to help them dress. All those pins around the wearers head makes it a dangerous piece of attire.

This is so much better than those hideous one piece hoods that Hollywood promotes .

No shaffron?

Items/materials list: Linen interlining Buckram Bias tape Milinery wire Matching thread White fine linen White silk satin White thread Black / blue velvet Black thread Ribbon Flat back beads Scissors Pins Needles Thimble Steam iron Stiff brush Tea towels Pleating board (made from poster board?) Wire cutters

My headdress is so creative 😩💅🏻

Hi ! I would love to have the pattern but I can't seem to be able to find anyplace to acquire it. Would you be able to help me ?

Sounds right. The nuns too, wear a coif, a whippet, and veils.

Your reconstructions are eye-opening, for the gable and the French hood. Absolutely fascinating.

Smart using a brush to steam the velvet!!!

Oh my, thank you so much for this video ❤

Wow. Thank you very much.

The travel aspect of it and the unfolding of the box bonnet, my mind is well and truly blown I can’t believe how inventive the construction is! You’ve done an amazing job such a well researched and informative video thank you!

The best gable hood ever!

I need a handout to go with this. Has this been published and is there a handout to help with construction?

I had been taught that the frontlet was separate from the hood. It was a strip of fabric wound around the head with the hood put over it.

Your videos are fascinating. Please do more!

You didn't show the box construction very well. You left out shaping the box and in the dark velvet, I couldn't see it either. I have made one of these, and the box in the back is still a mystery to me...I would appreciate an example in a lighter color perhaps you might just show the shaping of the box and how that works.

Wonderful. I have always been intrigued with Tudor ladies head wears. Thanks for explaining it so extensively.

Now I finally understand why French hoods look like they do.

Very Detailed but where is the pattern.

Simply wow! I love it!!! It is the most accurate English gable hood I have ever seen. I love it so much! Especially because you say what each part of the hood is called and show how it can be stored for easy travel. That is such a nice touch! Do you think you will be making more tutorials about English hoods? I realize that hoods from the 1520s would be done almost exactly the same, but maybe earlier hoods? Elizabeth of York's? Lady Margaret Beaufort's? I've recently found on Pinterest some cross between hennin and gable hood, so I am really excited for the article 'From Hennin to Hood' to find out more about it, can't wait to read it.

Wonderful video. I`ve always been curious about the structure of this really strange but awesome headwear. Now I know and it inspired me to try making one too. I personally like it more than the French hood. I think it`s more regal.

I would love a coife video.You are so lovely.

Wow! just Wow!

Gosh, hundred of pins!

Beautiful tutorial...Thank you!

in conclusion: pins are magic

There is atleast one painting that shows a gable hood and the striped frontlet being separate pieces.The said painting is an illustration of Troilus and Cressid,and shows the striped fabric tied like a frontlet around her forehead while her gable hood lies on ground.The painting seems allegorical,but the headwear is very period appropriate.Is it possible to make the Oreilette and frontlet as separate pieces?(your design is excellent,but the hood loses stability if I make the Oreilette and the frontlet separate and I can't use too many pins directly next to head.)Can you cite a source that confirms them being one piece,or did you make the Oreilette and striped frontlet one piece as a concession for stability?

I could listen to your class a hole day ☺ Great and lovely job 😍💕

I dismantled my french hood that I was making, now I know how to make a proper one! Thank you for this video!

This video was created as an appendix to an article "From Hennin to Hood" on the evolution of ladies' headwear from the medieval hennin to the French hood and the English hood respectively with more focus on the trail leading to the English hood. The patterns for this experimental reconstruction of an English hood is part of the article which is currently being considered for publication by the international journal "Medieval Clothing and Textiles".

Excellent. Now tell Hollywood as they never make these correctly. I have subscribed.

The full video is now available at kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6KueaKiaJZqj7s

I love it! Thank you!!! Fantastic work! I hope you could do Anne of Cleve’s stickleshen cap in her portrait that Holbein did of her.

Thank you for such an informative, wonderful video about how to make this Medieval hood. I would never have known!

THAT IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAVE SEEN AN ACCURATE HOOD FABRICATED.

Do you have a pattern I may borrow? I'm getting married at the renaissance festival and I'd like my costume to be as accurate as possible

Thank you! I didn’t know what the crepin (sp)? Was and how it was done!! Thank you 😊

Why is it that Hollywood Costume designers cannot make a French Hood or an English Gable properly? The galling part is they will receive an Oscar for their inaccurate work.

Fascinating. Much fiddlier than I expected though....(all that pinning!) Is there any chance you will be doing a tutorial on how to make the slightly earlier version of the french hood, as worn by Anne Boleyn and Mary Tudor ( Henry VIII’s sister) in their portraits? ( they didn’t have the forward- curving bits over the cheek)

Wow, you're just good! Love your accent, music, and teaching style. Awesome and thanks for sharing!

Remarkably well done video! Simply Exquisite & Wonderful, Thanks! You've inspire me to try to make one of these French Hoods now. : )

You have been here before

I admire your work and I think that this french hood is really beautiful, but I don't think that fren hoods were made of three pieces, it would be very uncomfortable to wear (specially if they have 2 coifs)

After several years of studying the movements of the Henrician and Elizabethan courts, I see this easily packable hood design as nearly ideal for the dozens of ladies and maids in waiting as well as any higher female servants. Reports of the progresses of Queen Elizabeth are readily available, although the complete set comprised of three volumes is harder to find, as the annotated version put out recently by the Nichols Project, Warwick University. The pieces are easily made by hand and require a minimum of expensive fabric. As for having to make them up every morning, a woman who needed to would have acquired the nack early and done it quicker than you put on your mascara although she might do it the night before. The huge wagon train that followed the court on Henry and Elizabeth’s progress catered to the needs of the Crown and to a much smaller extent the courtiers. Getting much luggage onto those wagons probably required haggling. Anything that required careful handling better travel in the seating wagons (for the ladies who didn’t ride), and those items had best be small, such as your jewelry case. These ladies didn’t have the luxury of a personal SUV to change from blue jeans and tee shirts 😃 to full splendor. While the unpacking happened the Crown came first. Single rooms weren’t available for any but the very most valuable Ladies (Blanche Parry for example when she wasn’t sleeping in the room with Queen Elizabeth).

Thank you for this very interesting hands on display. The ability of these to have been folded flat for travel by a lady is quite persuasive. I have a number of 19th century hats and the boxes necessary to carry them are very large. Traveling with them is a genuine pain. Traveling with the made up French Hood with its billaments might well have required such boxes and I have not found a mention of such in the existing Inventories or wills of the period and I have examined many such.

I often wonder when they wore these hoods, where the hair and then the material covered the ears, it was very difficult to hear and cut out a lot of sound.

You have such a wonderfully relaxing voice.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION! This video is relating to my paper ”Hidden in Plain Black” which was originally scheduled for printing in “Medieval Clothing and Textile” Volume 13 to be published in 2017 like it says in the video. Unforeseen circumstances have caused the paper to be rescheduled to appear in Volume 14 which will be published in spring 2018.

The difference between fine modern needles and thread and the originals, I suspect. If you had five or six of the things and needed to move frequently, as courts often did, with limited luggage allowances, knowing that everything was flat in a press was essential so you were ready as soon as you arrived. Not for you modern cleaning and pressing! That then cut the life of clothing, too, so pieces had to be quickly replaceable.