Male Dress - Knit Caps

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18th Century Material Culture

Knit Caps


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Solid WoolKnit Caps


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English Wool Knit Hat or Cap

16th Century(Museum of London)


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English Wool Knit Hat or Cap

16th Century(Museum of London)


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Dutch Cap from Holland c. 1650(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Dutch Knit Cap

Recovered from the Deposits of Spitsbergen, Norway c. 1650(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)


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Dutch Knit Cap

Recovered from the Deposits of Spitsbergen, Norway c. 1642(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)


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Knit Cap

18th Century(Private Collection)


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English Knit Wool Cap Monmouth Cap

Late 17th - 18th Century(Private Collection)


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English Knit Wool Monmouth Cap

16th - 17th Century(Nelson Museum & Local History Centre - Monmouth Museum)


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Runaway Advertisement - Virginia GazetteOctober 11, 1776

(Public Domain - Courtesy Andrew Jay)


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"(10) A knitted cap excavated from the New York waterfront; probably naval, it was originally tarred over the knitting." p. 138.

From: Neumann, George C., and Kravic, Frank; "The Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution", 1975


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Scottish Light Brown Knitted Wool CapDiscovered in the Clothing of a Man whose Body was found at Gunnister in Northmavine in Shetland

Late 17th Century(National Museums of Scotland)


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Scottish Light Brown Knitted Wool CapDiscovered in the Clothing of a Man whose Body was found at Gunnister in Northmavine in Shetland

Late 17th Century(National Museums of Scotland)


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Scottish Light Brown Knitted Wool CapEarly 18th Century

(National Museums of Scotland)


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A Dutch Knit Cap - Detail: The Smoker

Adriaen Brouwer De roker c. 1630 - 1638(Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)


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Untitled

18th Century(The British Museum)


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THE GAME OF PUT

1764(Lewis Walpole Library)


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A Fleet of Transports under Convoy (Newgate Prison in Background)

by Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton 1781(The British Museum)


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A Fleet of Transports under Convoy (Newgate Prison in Background)

by Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton 1781(The British Museum)


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The BOSTONIANS Paying the EXCISE - MAN, or TARRING and FEATHERING

by Phillip Dawe 1774(Colonial Williamsburg)


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The BOSTONIANS Paying the EXCISE - MAN, or TARRING and FEATHERING

by Phillip Dawe 1774(Colonial Williamsburg)


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An English Sailor Fishing o!a Gun of the Pallas

by Lt. Gabriel Bay - January 1775(National Maritime Museum)


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An English Sailor Fishing o!a Gun of the Pallas



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An English Sailor Leaning on a Gun of the Pallas



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A RESCUE or the TARS TRIUMPHANT


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Knit Cap Recovered from the 1798 Wreck of the DeBraak O!

the Coast of DelawarePutman, Tyler Rudd; "Textile Artifacts from H. M. Sloop DeBraak.","Military Collector and Historian." Volume 65. Spring 2013. No. 1.


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Knit Cap Recovered from the 1798 Wreck of the DeBraak O!

the Coast of DelawarePutman, Tyler Rudd; "Textile Artifacts from H. M. Sloop DeBraak.","Military Collector and Historian." Volume 65. Spring 2013. No. 1.


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Knit Cap Recovered from Brunswick Town / Fort Anderson, North Carolina

(Hannah P. Smith Revisiting the Port of Brunswick..)


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The Child dipus Brought Back to Life by the Shepherd Phorbas, who Took Him o!the Tree

by Antoine-Denis Chaudet (17631810) c. 1799 - Exhibited in 1801(The Louvre)


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French Knit Wool Tugue (A Seamless Tube, Closed at Both Ends & Folded Over Upon Itself for Double Layering)From the Wreck of the Machault Sunk in the 1760 Battle of Restigouche in the Bay of Gasp in Quebec Province

c. 1755 - 1760(Parks Canada)


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The Knit Hat Recreated(Joel Bohy)


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Striped WoolKnit Caps


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Knit Caps Recovered from the Deposits of Spitsbergen, Norway

c. 1642(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)


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Cap c. 1650(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Dutch Knit Cap



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Cap c. 1650(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Dutch Knit Cap



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Dutch Knit Cap



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English Striped Knit Cap from the Wreck of H.M.S. Invisiblec. 1758

(Chatham Dockyard)


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English Striped Knit Cap from the Wreck of H.M.S. Invisiblec. 1758

(Chatham Dockyard)


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Dutch Frame Knitted Cap



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Knit Cap Worn by Guilford County Militia O"cer Captain Arthur ForbisMortally Wounded at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781

(Greensboro Historical Museum)


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Dr. Oliver and Mr. Peirce Examining Patients at the Bath General Hospitalby William Hoare 1761

(Royal Mineral Water Hospital - Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases)


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The Porter and the Hare

by Johann Zo!

any 1768(Ernest Edward Cook Collection - Herbert Art Gallery)


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The Porter and the Hare

by Johann Zo!

any 1768(Ernest Edward Cook Collection - Herbert Art Gallery)


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Detail: The Idle Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Serviceby William Hogarth 1747

(Private Collection)


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The Provokd Wife - Drury Lane 18 April 1763by Johann Zo!any 1763 - 1765(Wolverhampton Art Gallery)


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George Whitefield preachingby John Collett

(Private Collection)


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The Striped Knit Hat Recreated

(Colonial Williamsburg - Joseph Privott)


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Le Marchand de Vin

by Pietro Fabris c. 1770s(Privare Collection)


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Andrew Wilkinson

by Andrew Wilkinson 1755(National Portrait Gallery)


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Andrew Wilkinson

by Andrew Wilkinson 1755(National Portrait Gallery)


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A Smoking Dutch Whaler Taking a Beer

18th Century(Onno Van Seggelen)


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The Striped Knit Hat Recreated

(Colonial Williamsburg - Jay & Lyndon Howlett)


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Patterned WoolKnit Caps


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Knit Cap c. 1650(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Dutch Knit Capc. 1650

(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)


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English Knit Cap from the 1785 Wreck of the General Carleton of Whitbyc. 1785

(Cook Museum, Whitby)


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Dutch Silk Diamond Pattern Knit Cap17th Century



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Dutch Silk Diamond Pattern Knit Cap17th Century



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The Diamond Pattern Knit Cap Recreated

(The First Oval O"ce - Colonial Williamsburg)


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CottonKnit Caps


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Dutch Cotton Knit Cap18th Century

(Ex Collection of FIT, Brooklyn Museum, Mrs. DeWitt Cohen and Gertrude Whiting)


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Advertisement from the Boston Evening Post of April 13, 1767"a striped worsted and a blue mill'd cap"

(Image Courtesy Niels Hobbs)


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Advertisement from the Boston Evening Post of May 23, 1768kilmaramock caps



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Advertisement from the Boston Evening Post of May 3, 1771Kilmarmock Caps



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Advertisement from the Boston Gazette of May 7, 1771striped and plain worsted caps



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Advertisement from the Boston Evening Post of September 23, 1771striped and scarlet caps, milled caps



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BoursierFrom the Encyclopedia of Diderot & dAlembert

(University of Michigan)


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