How to Make an EASY Viking Age Hat!
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2021
- Wanna make a fun early medieval hat? Sure you do! Join me for the first sewing based video of the summer. The long, hot... well, hot for some, summer of 2021! See exotic Scottish weather! Learn mysterious medieval embroidery skills! Smell... well, probably best not to smell anything. It's been a sweaty June...
Anyway! We're going to talk Vikings, hats, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, flappy doodles, and definitely not Loki, Marvel, the MCU and sexuality this time.
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Totally impressed by your Dutch and proud to be living in the north of the Netherlands where these hats were kept safe in our glorious mud!
I was especially suprised by his pronounciation of Groningen. That is like a minefield for native English speakers. I'm really impressed.
As a left handed person who often has trouble understanding embroidery videos, I must say I really appreciated and understood the instructions for that stitch! I have trouble when people show themselves doing the stitch, but don’t include a diagram like that because my brain can’t compute the way their hands are moving. I just really really appreciated this cause I can compute this! Lol! Can’t wait to try it out! Thank you so much!
One thing I do as a lefty, is make a lot of screenshots of their hands positions, open paint, and flip them. Then they finally make sense to me. Also, I've watched a video through a mirror at the side to understand a quite difficult process before.
My daughter is a lefty, I know how frustrated she gets. I have managed to reach her to knit but failed on cross-stitch. Embroidery isn't something she is interested in & I hate to say it but I'm quite relieved.
My mom taught me to crochet right handed then once I had the basics I taught myself to do it lefty. I've definitely used a mirror to figure stuff out but my body tends to naturally flip things around anyway, if I pick up a pen and start writing with my right hand it comes out mirror image as well as mostly illegible...
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 I tried teaching my daughter crochet, I think my mind had blanked out that experience. 🤣
When I am teaching a southpaw potter to throw on the wheel, we sit face-to-face and they just imitate what they see me doing in mirror fashion. As mione3690 suggested, still shots flipped might help. If you are watching a video and the instructor is right-handed, mirror what you see them doing and pause as often as needed.
Me: Pfft. I definitely don't need a fun early medieval hat.
Me, ten minutes later: OK but I definitely need to have a go at that herringbone braid stitch.
About math for the top part: I remember my math teacher telling me that pie are square, which is confusing because cornbread are square and pie are round.
Pie r deep, bread r flat.
Flappy doodles is such a great description
Sides and crown, my dear boy, side of the hat, and crown of the hat.
Best way I have found for creating a hat crown pattern, round thing at the top. Is to fold a length of Aluminum foil into a one inch strip. Wrap it around your head tape it at the size you want. Then very carefully lift it straight up and put it on a piece of paper and trace around the shape. One crown pattern.
Dammit, Jimmy, I've got a sewing queue as long as the Ormen Lange and I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PROJECT. Tromps off to inspect my bag of remnants.
Also, well done on "Groningen". That was quite respectably pronounced. I expect being a Welsh speaker helps. My mother-in-law comes from Leens.
I not only happen to have the exact piece of fabric for this but I can line it in coordinating linen. But I def need to watch again. The cover stitch is gorgeous. Must review instructions.
Rachel Boersma-Plug I fully relate.
Ohh yeah. Mine was bad, then I looking in the Met database and POW! Another project! 16th century leather doublet for fencing lessons. It’s leather With Embroidery All Over!!
It’s endless.
Thanks that's a great little hat
“Flappy-doodles” - Jimmy
😂😂😂
I do like the look of that seam treatment, it looks a lot like piping , and I would guess strengthens the seam in a similar way, as well as eliminating the need for seam allowances when they weren't needed. Hand sewing may seem tedious to (most) modern people, but it's nothing compared to the mind boggling amount of time needed to spin the yarn and then weave the cloth.
Burying people with weapons and armour is more obviously an expensive prospect, but even a simple full set of clothes represents hundreds, or even thousands of hours of pre industrial labour.
I feel your pain regarding a 60cm head, I have a 61cm head and can never buy a ready made hat. (My brother is 62cm.)
That pronunciation of Groningen was really good
"Make a note of that word: Flappydoodles. I'd like to use it more in conversation."
Flappy doodles 😂
You can soften the scratchiness out of that wool with a hair conditioner rinse.
This. A nice leave-in conditioner of choice will do wonders. Ditto a leave-in/no-rinse wool wash like Eucalan that has a natural lanolin-based formulation.
But if it still remains too scratchy, one could either stitch in a band or liner out of softer material like linen and stealth it (since no one will ever see it) or make it a slight bit larger and wear a period-appropriate linen coif or other such "under-cap."
I wash all my wool in shampoo, and if it's scratchy soak it in a bit of water and conditioner for 10 or so minutes, give it a quick rinse, and it's softer.
That said, I have an entire cone of lovely blue laceweight wool that feels like tiny barbed wire, no matter what I do to it. (Grrr. Argh!)
@@Korina42 ugh, there's always "THAT" yarn. (For me, it was a giften ball of Kauni - gorgeous gradient, felt like 5 miles of rough scrub, but was too damned expensive to make into swiffer pads). Your's might be a good candidate for a felting project, tho - rough wools felt like whoa and damn. Wee felted baskets are always a fun project, and make great gifts. Although in laceweight, I can see the desire to make something a bit more fancy and wearable for all the work that's going to go into it. Maybe a nice lace hat with a color-contrasting jersey knit liner peeking through the holes? Or one of those delicate, floaty, drapey lace-knit robe-jackets that are more decorative than functional, and worn over a full set of clothing. I'm rather partial to this longer, modded version of the Sabine, myself: www.ravelry.com/projects/montaratraci/sabine
This is kind of exciting - my friend is doing some serious weaving using wool that she spun from endangered sheep breeds. We have some cochineal dye and that should look excellent with the dark dark weave!
Ooh that sounds wonderful!
I was SO surprised at your perfect Groningen pronunciation, doesn't happen a lot
The hat with the peak absolutely looks like a contemporary welder's cap.
That stitch looks exactly like a finger braid I did as a kid. When I saw it I expected you to explain how to finger braid! If you're not into exact historic replicas, finger braid a braid and stitch that bad boy along the seam, same result, lots faster.
I likened it to a leather braid! 😄
Thanks for a great idea; my kid's learning to sew and he's just spent the afternoon making himself the basic cap, but the embroidery is way beyond his ability. I've set him up with some yarn and he's finger knitting a cord now.
@@rachelboersma-plug9482 Awesome!
@@FeathPymArt He got it done and he's super pleased with the result.
@@rachelboersma-plug9482 That's great!
Who doesn't want floppy doodles around their head!
Nobody. They're just the best
Brilliant! I am recently obsessed with reinforced seams. You did lovely work on this piece.
Ach, Jimmy, I do not need another project. What hast thou wrought?!
Just in case nobody has noted this: finding the circumference of an ellipse (i.e. the oval top part of the hat) is actually mathematically rather difficult and annoying. There are approximations, but nothing as obvious as for a circle. The one I would use is the squared circumference C^2 ~= (2pi^2)(a^2 + b^2) where a and b are the short and long axes of the ellipse. This is an okay approximation because the top of the hat is close-ish to a circle.
Also thank you for this video, this will be my first real piece of kit that I make myself!
60 cm in diameter?! That's one huge head, Jimmy! :D
Man, conditioning is really something ... now I really just need to hear your lovely little intro music and can't help but smile :D
Just so wholesome, in addition to educational.
Warning: several extrem close ups of a lovely pair of hands. 😊
That's a very nice hat. I really like the fabric and the red braiding is such a nice contrast. Great job! Did the women wear this cap also - or just the men? Blessings.
May have to steal that stitch for my next cardigan (I know it sounds weird but hear me out, I'm planning a sort of not particularly accurate but adequate Viking pattern in the knitting !) love your videos glad to see you are feeling better after your bout with the plague!
The historically inaccurate part is, of course, the knitting :D
This was a true joy to make. Measuring, cutting out and sewing the thing together took me 30 minutes. The decoration all around about 2 hours. Probably the fastest and most enjoyable sewing project I have tackled in a while. Thank you for the inspiration!
Goes through bag of remnant-pieces.... Thank you again.
If wool is scratchy, you can hand wash the piece of fabric with hair conditioner! It might take a couple of washes to get rid of the scratchiness (my Icelandic wool sweater took about 5, it was a pain but is super soft now!)
Loving the hat, it looks great!
You can actually soak it in a bucket of water and conditioner overnight as well! Some people will use fabric softener but conditioner is best for natural hair fibers.
Ah, yes, you might THINK that looks like rain, but actually it was just someone power washing the side of the house. It's all right, it's easy to confuse the two. 😁 All kidding aside, I have to admit that my first thought was This doesn't look very promising. But AFTER you put it on and styled it in so many ways, very cute and surprisingly adaptable!
Adorkable! As usual - thank you ^*^
You pronounce Groningen better than I do.
Don't ever do pink and you should be alright. Otherwise Jackie Kennedy Onassis called and she wants her Pillbox Hat back.
But you CAN do pink fake fur, because thats authentic and viking
@@Wirrn Touché'
yes!!! just in time for summer reenactment!!! :) thank you jimmy!!!
About a year ago, after some quick basic research, I made a pillbox hat from subtle thin leather. Totally unaware of the historical accuracy I also added a stich line over the top. But not for decoration but for pure necessity. My top piece turned out to be too big and the easiest and most aesthetic option was to remove some material from the middle and turn a circle into an oval.
I guess it was a happy accident after all. It's no longer a bug, it's a feature.
Oh my gosh. Im so happy I heard someone else say "flappy-doodles" now I have evidence that no one can make fun of me. Hahahaha.
MERCH OP!
Looks like rain
Better make a hat
All medieval hats look silly, but it was considered rude for a man not to wear one. My constant dilemma
that's a high medieval onwards thing. That paradigm didn't exist in the early medieval period.
Now that is a convenient time for a german student during exams who actually wants to study :D
Viel Glück... unbekannterweise!
@@sisuguillam5109 Dankeschön:)
same :(
@@beethovenjunkie Good luck to you too! Dir auch viel Glück!
@@sisuguillam5109 Danke :*
Very dashing. Good job unraveling the instructions for that stitch. It looks great! Just trying to figure it out made my eyes cross. Take care.
I love this hat! Am going to make it RIGHT NOW! Well, with woven cotton, not wool... And actual piping, not embroidery... But, INSPIRED by this awesome hat and your delightful presentation!
As a dedicated math avoider, I compliment you on your effective math avoidance. I feel certain you are a lot closer to the authentic historical method than anything involving pi...
My plan: Make the side piece out of stiff paper, tape ends together (overlapped correctly to account for the seam widths) squish the resulting circle into an oval (maybe use 2 bits of tape to keep it in place?) Much easier to trace this stiff paper than floppy fabric!
Trace oval onto the second piece of stiff paper. You can trace the outside, so as to include the needed seam allowance. (I'm assuming the goal is to match NOT THE EDGES but the SEAM LOCATIONS? which is a bit trickier but traditionally essential! )
Bonus: you end up with two paper pattern pieces! Much easier to adjust your pattern to make a better-fitting second hat (I always plan on the first edition being a fail, lol. Save your good fabric for the second version!!!)
Your explanation of the embroidery was astonishingly coherent-- very impressive! But the embroidery itself seems... *irrationally* time and labor intensive. This instantly suggests to me that it had some religious purpose. I submit it was the physical part of a charm for the safety of the wearer, to be executed while reciting an associated verbal incantation. Not anticipating much personal need for protection from war axes, I will lazily default to piping.
Thanks for the great video :)
Heya. I discovered your channel a few days ago, and have already watched over a dozen of your videos. I wanted to say that I appreciate your scholarly, though personable and accessable approach. You obviously put a lot of work into your studies and teaching. I feel like I'm learning a great deal, and am also delighted by your liberal sprinkling of humor. Thank you for the work you do.
I am a professional calligrapher, who typically specialized in medieval celtic lettering and illumination. If you ever have the time, I would love to see a video about viking scribes and artistic styles. On both runestones and manuscripts.
Thanks again. You're doing quality work.
Your videos are so delightfully informative and relaxing to listen to!
Your pronunciation of Dutch place names was bang-on as far as I could tell, nicely done.
I made pill box hats ages ago for my late roman impression and I need to revisit them.
As someone from the town next to Leens, that's exactly how you pronounce it! Groningen is correct as well. Rasquert is almost the same, we pronounce it like 'ras- quirt'.
I was expecting something far from home, turns out it's literally from my neighbourhood xD
Kinda a shame I didn't knew this was knowledge from the Vikings, through we do have a lot of local musea focused on that period of time, usually about agriculture, clothes, tools, and how we dealt with water back then. Now that I think about it, I think I saw this kind of hat in a small museum here.
Looking forward to making this myself.
Oh yay, thank you so much for the feedback and I hope you enjoy trying the hat!
Yeah dutch mediveal history is highy negelted
Thank you so much for sharing this hat tutorial. I made several of these hats recently. However, I couldn't remember how you did the embroidery stitch. I watched this video a couple of times and now have it down. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Be safe and healthy. Look after you ❤🇨🇦
Lovely simple instructions, thanks Jimmy. That's a great project for the thin scraps of wool I cant do much of anything else with!
Shwdi ddweud "flappy doodles" yn Gymraeg? 🤭
Fflapi dwdls ;D
@@TheWelshViking 🤣
Bestwel leuk om zoveel Nederlandse bronnen in deze video voorbij te zien komen.
Your pronounced the Dutch words quite good!
Hou van je videos, groetjes.
Not finished it yet but the basic hat is rather fun to make and fairly quick. Now for the decorative bit...
I'm late as fuck but as a Groningse I have to compliment you on your pronunciation of "Groningen", the G is usually very tricky for foreigners but you did well!
Its was correct , Groningen ;) what you also can do is take the top of a bucket hat pattern .than you have the same pattern for this hat ( i think ) .
Is this strictly a male cap or would it have been worn by women as well?
Pretty much strictly male as far as I'm aware. Women tended to wear different types of headcovering, like veils or wimples, large square or rectangular pieces of linen which were pinned in place with hairpins.
I’m impressed with your embroidery skills! I didn’t realize that the embroidery was there to protect the seams.
I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that viking age Scandinavian women secured their hair back from their faces with a linen scarf or wrapped it around a bun at the back of the neck. I've also seen women tie their hair in a pony tail at the bottom of the neck with a long linen or woolen ribbon, split the pony tail in two sections and wrap the ends of the ribbon around each section, which they then wrapped around their heads like a crown, and tied in the back. Again, not sure of the historical accuracy of these, but I have seen examples of each in my personal research.
Oh! I love that hat! Looks great.
Me: Well, just look up the mathmatical formula for an oval online so you can easily make your own patterns ^.~
-20mins later-
Me rocking back and forth in a corner muttering: Three circles... so much effort... not easy... ohhhh no... not easy... Pies the key... circle of three....
(Honestly: Looked at two formulas and noped out. )
There used to be calculators for this available online. I find cutting shapes of parchment paper and taping them together in the outline I need helpful also.
Or you could just cut out some brown wrapping paper tape it together and see if it fits. If not I add a bit extra paper to make it bigger. Thats how I sew things 🤷♀️
Love it! Thanks!
Nice! I attempted nalbinding for the first time last week and got a wearable hat out of it. Is it pretty? Nope! I think I'll try this next, although I'm not sure where to get the fabric for it. There aren't many good fabric shops where I live in Texas.
One of my kids and I have actually started making a couple right now, out of a piece of woollen blanket. It's thicker than Jimmy's, and felted, but a) it's what we've got b) it's easier for a kid to sew c) it's more weatherproof and d) it sounds like the original might have been felted.
@@rachelboersma-plug9482 Repurposing old things sounds like a good idea. I'll have to check out some thrift shops to see if they have anything I can practice on. I hope yours turns out well!
@@Kato_Rin Thanks, and good luck with your search! With small items like this cap, I think it's safe to assume that they were cut from remnant fabric or salvaged from a worn-out garment,
I like hats!
Love that stitch. Must remember to try it out some time. Thanks!
Thanks for this video! 🙏🏻
I dont't know if it's because i'm stupid or because i'm drunk, but I understood absolutely nothing of the sewing instructions for making the fancy stich. But no worries, i'll try again later when I',m sober. Great vid as always btw
Nice! I've done a Leens cap a few years back for a museum in red diamond twill. That fabrics frayed like crazy, I can see how the embroidery could be a strengthening stitch...
So interesting!
Thanks for another fab video mate! Still working through the back catalogue and having a fabulous time while I learn! Thank you 😁
I dont suppose anyone could point me in the direction of a video on Nalbinding? I really want to learn! Yes I know there are lots of beginner guides about but they're not like these 🥰
Hell yeah I've been meaning to make one of these out of some wool I have left over. I should probably finish my stays first tho lol. Thank you :)
Hi, I really love watching your videos, especially this one!!👍👍 I'll have to watch it a few times over before starting to make my hat, 😋😅😅 but I really look forward to making it. Have a good one and sending lots of greetings from Cape Town, South Africa.🙋🙋
1:40 dude, you spoke the name perfectly fine lmao
Source: am Dutch
That's a decent sized head, which makes my happy, as it means less fudging of the maths, if I ever decide to make one for myself (my head is a smidge bigger at 61cm) or the spousal unit (his is around the same size as yours). Excellent hat 😁👍
love the hat. i've made all the version of the pill box the Rasquert version gave me the most problem it the positioning the peak kinda feels like it more of a neck covering. rather than a glare protection but i guess as i wear it as a helmet liner and i have a mail aventail i would think along that line. the Aalsum version was nice to make though after a week of doing the making video i was pointed to a different interpretation of the Aalsum and ended up doing a one off making vid just for the other hat. also your skill is far greater than mine i didn't even try the decorative embroidery, so very nice to see it clearly explained.
I want to make a hat like this by Nålbinding wool yarn. I'm just finishing up a Nålbind Sack Hat. :)
Adding more bits to my Viking kit over this last...pandemic.... I don't know if this is a unisex cap, but I may make one just to keep my noggin warm on those chilly An Tirian nights.
"That's because I think it'll make me look even more of a penis" 😂 A sentence I never expected to hear but it definitely made me laugh. A good start to the day. 😊
the fact that some hats survived at all o.O
I would think that, if your head is so much bigger than the original, you should add an inch or two to the depth as well to get the proper effect. The one you’re wearing looks a little skimpy. Love the embroidery technique. Thanks for the video.
I did. From period imagery caps didn't cover ears so I'm happy the fit is pretty spot on
I have been interested in the shape of hats and have been trying to knit a hat with a nice shape that is not quite a labour' intensive. The knowledge here was helpful to knitting a hat. I am going to design a pattern or formula that works for different thicknesses of yarn . I have a big head too and lots of hair. I knit smaller hats for others.
Floppydoodles? Holding my sides here.
You did really good on Groningen!
It confuses me a bit thought that people living in northern of Netherlands are considered viking, or viking related.
There were some Danish settlements there, so *some* were Danes, and *some* Danes were vikings.
@@TheWelshViking Ah thanks for explaining that for me!
I'm sure the middle seam on top was just piecing together the scraps they had because it was cabbage cut off from making a tunic or pants and they wanted to use up the fabric or it was to shape the hat to be a bit more round for the top of the head .. just some thoughts
This is a guess only, but if you look at some national dresses, take Faroe islands gor example they have their hats to the side often. As you showed as one example. It wouldn’t surprise me if thats how you did wear them. Often in daily work days you see them have their hats like that even if it an ordinary pointed hat.
The pill box hat kind of reminds me of a frontiermans fur hat tube design and a flat top.some even had the tails and faces of the animal it was made out of the most common animal used was a raccoon.
2:44 dont worry we forgive you, dutch is a hard language and let's not even start about frisian ;) bedankt voor de leuke videos!
Nice, I recently bought a really simple one that's made from plain blue wool. The sides are quite short compared to yours, with the bottom barely reaching my ears when all the way on.
Teehee we have the same noggin sizes XD
The Rasquert (sp?) Cap is 90% surely worn with the flap in the back, staining and wear on the original does not fit with it pointing forward, even though I've pretty much only seen the dutch wear it proper. 😂
Back of necks get cold and the peak is not big enough to shade the eyes. I agree.
Came for the smoulder, stayed for the stitching. And I don't even sew!
You pronounced Groningen pretty good
Send that rain here please!! Was that a seam on the top piece? It would be a way to save fabric.
Really need that in Finland too, we're not made for 30+ weather over here.
@@HandleMyBallsCZcams we would if we could it feels there hasn't been 2 straight days of dry weather in the last month.
The math for the top circle. :)
Circumference divided by PI = the width across the top cirkel. (diameter)
c ÷ π = d
Don't forget seam allowances!
The embroidery stitch looks hard to start and easy after 5 rows.
I don't know if I already asked this (probably) but you should do a video on Vinland Saga. I'm curious to know how much is historically correct in terms to clothes and such! :)
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I tried one before. Bo decoration and lined it with linnen because I thought it wouldn't be firm enough without it. Did it also a bit shorter since I preferred that look.
Turned out okay-ish, but the top is just sewn so sloppy. It's not a nice and round seam, so I'll have to do a Mk. II some day
I'll have to try that herringbone stitch! Unfortunately, googling "herringbone embroidery stitch" turns up a whole lot of some other embroidery stitch... guess I'll just have to use the diagram in the video.
Yes modern herringbone is slightly different this one is not in common use so I don't know what you could search. 🤔
The link to the journal has a slightly higher res pic as well if that helps?
@@TheWelshViking Update: I'm using it to reinforce the seams on a belt-pouch. I feel like a time traveler, learning a sewing technique direct from the early middle ages.
The peek on the one hat look like maybe it would be to go between the eyes/eyebrows to protect that area from rubbing under a face shield of a helmet? Complete conjecture though lol
Mmmm, herringbone
I'm crushing hard on that wool
I also have one of these fancy boy hats, and it got featured in two different outfits of trying to chart different Cornish fashions...probably could have been all of them but that seemed excessive.
I would think that wool cloth was felted after it was woven. That would give it more strength and make it less raveily. Homespun and handwoven fabric is sort of unstable. Reason many garments were constructed of squares and rectangles - to avoid cutting.
The vast majority of the cloth we have is unfelted before the 14th century, interestingly enough