Tudor wool cap c. 1600

This wool cap was found by archaeologists in an excavation in London and has been dated to around 1600. It was knitted by hand and coloured using vegetable dyes.
Many masters of houses like Wollaton Hall provided a uniform or ‘livery’ for their servants. This wool cap was the kind of thing they would have worn.
The 'Cappers Act' of 1571 ruled that every English resident over the age of six and below the rank of 'gentleman' had to wear on Sundays and holy days 'a cap of wool, thickened and dressed in England, made within this realm and only dressed and finished by some of the trade of cappers, upon pain to forfeit for every day of not wearing 3s. 4d.' This aimed to protect the trade of cap-making in England.

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