This Monmouth Cap is hand-knitted and felted by me with 65% wool and 35% alpaca – the colour is chocolate brown. It has a Dorset Button* at the crown and a loop for hanging up at the back and is about 24″ in circumference.It has a wide double thickness brim…
Traditional Felted MONMOUTH CAP
$33.00 $23.10
Description
This Monmouth Cap is hand-knitted and felted by me with 65% wool and 35% alpaca – the colour is chocolate brown.
It has a Dorset Button* at the crown and a loop for hanging up at the back and is about 24″ in circumference.It has a wide double thickness brim that can be worn down or folded up.
Monmouth caps were worn by sailors, soldiers and men doing outdoor work from the 15th to the late 18th centuries. Traditionally they are hand-knitted with coarse wool which will offer warmth and weather protection. They sometimes have a button and also a loop for hanging-up when not in use.
*A Dorset button is a style of hand-made button originating in the English county of Dorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.