I'm going by what it looks like to me. http://elizabethangeek.com/costumereview/images/13.jpg in that picture the back shape looks like the QEI picture except this one covers the ears. According to the site that you just linked me to, it says later period french hoods are more often referred to as billiments because the hood itself had gotten so small.
http://elizabethangeek.com/costumereview/images/48.jpg This one doesn't cover the ears and you can see the crescent nicely. It's pictures like that, that make me say french hood. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Melanie Schuessler <mela...@faucet.net>wrote: > > > I don't think this is any variety of French hood at all, but rather a caul > or cap made of a circle gathered to a band. You can find diagrams and > instructions on the top half of this page: > http://www.elizabethancostume.net/headwear/caulmake.html > > I should amend my statement in my previous email about cauls not being made > of linen--that was in reference to upper-class cauls. Clearly lower-class > women did wear white linen cauls, as can be seen in many Flemish genre > paintings. > > Melanie Schuessler > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
