Showing posts with label Witchfinder Hat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Witchfinder Hat. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 August 2020

Capotain

The Capotain (Copotain/Capatain) is tall wide-brimmed hat worn during the late 16th and 17th centuries


The hat is associated with Puritans and English Civil War


The hat is also with Pilgrim that settled in the Plymouth colony America in 1620, hence its often also called a Pilgrims Hat


The hat is also worn by witchfinders and had a buckle on the front of the crown, but both of these are images created in 19th Century fiction probably untrue. 



Sunday, 20 November 2016

Witchfinder Hat

So called witch finder hats are wide brimmed, with a tall flat topped tapered crown and with a large single buckle around the base of crown at the front.


The hat gets its name from the witch finder general Mathew Hopkins who hanged over 100 people accused of Witchcraft and can be seen wearing a hat of this shape in contemporary imagery.

Historically this shape of hat is a 17th Century hat style worn during the English Civil War and would have been made of felt.



The stiff dark leather witchfinder's hats you will find nowadays come from modern imagery and films.





The proportions have all been exaggerated in the hat I'm wearing. 


This is very heavy hat, but not uncomfortable to wear, you just have to remember your a bit taller and duck or you will lose the hat to low hanging branches or beams