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.

You have such a wonderfully relaxing voice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

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

Beautiful tutorial...Thank you!

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

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)

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

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.

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.

Smart using a brush to steam the velvet!!!

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

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

You have been here before

Is there a specific site/place to get the pattern from?

Very Detailed but where is the pattern.

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)