Felting Dictionary

*Agal: modern Arab head-dress. Consists of a scarf wound around the head and held in place by its own fringes tucked into the roll.
*a shu: pandita hat, red hat of a scholar with long lappets
*Albanian Hat: hat with a high crown and raised front, trimmed with a feather. This style was made popular by portraits of Henry IV.
*alpine hat: soft felt sport hat, also, Tyrolean
*amice: a priest's white ritual hood
*Ammana: large wound turban worn by Muslims
*almuce: a fur lined hood
*Annie Hall: drooping brimmed hat made famous by Diane Keaton in movie of same name...1970's
*arctic cap: Felt crown with goose down, Mouton lamb storm flaps
*ascot: London, gray top hat worn at Ascot races
*attiffet: women's headdress which arched on either side of the head and was covered by a veil which fell in a point. Popular style in sixteenth century.
*aumussiers: a hood made of fur
*babushka: Russian grandmothers triangular shaped head scarf tied under chin
*bachlik: a hood attached to a cap... Balkans
* baigneaus: bonnet fashioned like a bathing cap
*baku: straw hat from Ceylon
*balaclava: knitted hood, covered head, ears, neck and mouth, used by soldiers in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War of 1854, call the Protector in 1843
*balibuntal: Philippines, straw woven hat
*balmoral: Scotch Bluebonnet. woolen beret cap with top projecting over tartan band of Stuart colors, 1850's
*bambini: designed by Della Robia, ?Florence Italy, a hat with a halo brim
*bandeau: small leaf or drop head-dress for women, to accompany elegant attire
*bandino: 1930's women's large brimmed hat
*bangkok: woven palm fiber hat
*barbe: wimple covering ladies head, neck and chin
*barrentino: Italian fisherman's cap
*barette: wide flat cap worn in Middle Ages by priests.
*baseball cap: cloth cap with wide brim at the front. worn by baseball
*basher: a straw hat
*bashlyk: an ancient round topped felt bonnet with lappets
*Basque beret: flat round woolen felt cap worn my Basque peasants
*bavolet: cap worn by French peasant women called curtain bonnet
*beanie: 20th century American small, round skull cap, cut in gores to fit head
*beaver hat: hat made of beaver fur felt
*bearskin: A large furry crowned hat, uniform worn by Coldstream Guard
*beefeater: narrow brimmed hat worn by British Yeoman of the Guard and Warders of the Tower of London since the 16 century. flat topped medium high crown gathered into a headband, black beret shape
*beguin: close fitting cap, 3 pieces, medieval,
*bellboy: small stiff cap in pillbox shape usually worn by hotel bellboys
*Ben Hogan: English driving cap
*beret: cap of felt, felted jersey or fabric with soft, wide circular crown, with or without a headband
*berettino: see biretta
*bersagliere: hat worn at an angle wide brim large curving feather mount, worn by Italian mountain regiment
*Bethlehem headdress: truncated, dome shaped cap, decorated with gold and silver coins and jewels. Worn with a veil. Ancient Moslem headdress. tarboosh
* bicorne: men's hat of the late 18th and early 19th century. It is was the signature hat of Napoleon.
*biggin: coif like cap with ties under the chin, 16 & 17th century
*billycock: a bowler circa 1850, named after William Coke.
*bird cage: a small hat with stiffened veiling surrounding the wearer's face
*biretta: square cap worn by clergy. The crown has 3 and 4 projections.
*boater: oval, flat-topped hat with rigid flat brim, typically made of straw braid sailor or a skimmer.
* bobby:tall dome, short turned down brim, Keystone Cop style, worn by English police.
*bonnet: name of women's or girl's head-dress, with deep brim and ribbons to tie under the chin;
*bonnet a la Laitere: cap similar to a maiden's cap
*bonnet rouge: red cap worn during French Revolution as a symbol of liberty.
*bonnet a la Victorie: a cap decorated with laurel leaves, the symbol of victory
*bonnet demi-neg lige: informal cap worn under a hat
*bonnetiers: white head hugging, knitted, sometimes felted wool hats
*bongrace: 16, 17 century Oblong shaped, stiff material which dips over the forehead and draping over the back, worn in a coif
*borsalino: man's fur felt hat from Italian firm of same name, 1920's
*bourrelet: head protector for children
*bowler: oval hat, with round, rigid crown modeled brim, a derby, made popular by the Earl of Derby
*breton or bretonne: women's hat with ample round crown and brim turned-up all around
*bridal veil: white or ivory veil worn during wedding ceremony
*brush hat: 19th century term for felt hats with nap brushed up during planking
*bubble: melon shaped pillbox cap
*bucket cap: sports hat with round dented crown
*bulbous: 16 century German Large dome shaped cap.
*bumper brim: Hat with a tubular shaped brim. various sized brim and crown
*buriti: Brazilian straw hat
*busby: toll cylindrical cur cape with military ornament hanging from top. 15th century cavalry uniform of Hungarian Hussars.
*bush hat: wide brimmed man's felt hat, turned up brim on 1 side.. slouch hat
*butterfly headdress: 15th century, variation of Hennin, box cap, draped veiling like butterfly wings.
*bycocket, bycoket: 16th century Italian student high crown, wide brim, peaked in the front and turned up in the back. Middle Ages.
*cabacete: a type of Spanish war hat , 15th century, turned down brim and an almond shaped skull ending in a stalk.
*cabas: Sally Victor reinvented this version of the Phrygian Bonnet in 1956
*cabriolet bonnet: 19th century bonnet with brim, similar to carriage top
*calash, caleche: 18th century, large folding hood supported by hoops that could be raised or lowered. Named after calash carriage.
*calotte: a close-fitting skull cap. Ancient Greek origin, 17th century, Medieval times, worn over shaved head.
*calpac: large black felt cap worn by men in Turkey, Cossack
*Cameleurion: hemispherical crown worn by the Caesars, then by the Byzantine Emperors.
*camuro: Ermine trimmed, red velvet cap, larger than skull cap, formerly worn by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
*Campaign hat: 4 large dimples in tall crown, stiff straight brim,boy scout hat.
*Canadian Mounties stetson: official head-dress of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
*canotier: boater
*cap: ancient origin. snug fitting warm head covering often with partial brim.
*cape hat: Half hat made by attaching fabric or felt to a bicycle clip
*capeline: small round crown and wide floppy brim
*capote: close fitting bonnet with rigid brim. soft crown, bows, 19 century.
*Cappa Floccata: Round hat made of hairy material, worn by greek shepherds.
*cappoose: A very tall fur hat
*capuche: long pointed hood worn by Capuchin monks
*capuchon: medieval pointed hooded cape, to stiffened down the center...
*capulet: Juliet cap, worn on back of head i.e. "Romeo and Juliet"
*cardinal's hat: 13th century, red hat with short, rounded crown and broad flat brim. Rank shown by number of tassels
*cartwheel: a hat with a wide straight brim and a low crown, worn by peasants in southern France
*casque: French for helmet.
*castor hat: hat of beaver or rabbit French
*cassimere hat: felt hats with a very smooth surface produced by pouncing
*cater cap: 19th century square university cap... mortarboard
*caubeen: Irish slang for shabby old hat
*caudebec: a cheap felt cap made in Normandy, 18th century
*caul: historical term for a close-fitting indoor head-dress, or the plain back part of the same. 14th ,15th,16th century
*cavalier hat: a wide-brimmed, plumed hat, 17th century; the right side of the brim was pinned up to the crown so that the wearer's sword arm could move freely above the shoulder
*chador: traditional concealing head covering worn by Muslim women in public
*chapeau a la cheulalte: hat introduced by Queen Charlotte of England
*chapeau a la Devonshire: hat with feathers, aigrettes
*chapeau a la Turque: hat styled after Turkish Fashion
*chapeau a L'Egyptienne: puffed kerchief, lace edges held on with a ribbon with and aigrette and 2 heron feathers
*chapeau claque: gibus hat
*chapel cap: circle or triangle of lace placed on head when entering Catholic church for church services
*chaplet: circle of fresh flowers, later gold , medieval times
*chapeliers de feutue: felt hats
*chaperon: middle ages/renaissance, pointed hood short cape. hood face opening placed over forehead as a headband and the cape was gathered and pleated in the form of a fan. A liripipe was twisted around the pleated cape to hold it in place.
*chaperonniers: elaborate hoods
*chapka: fur cap with flaps that can be turned down or fasten to side of crown
*character hat: late 1970's hat worn by NY senator Pat Moynihan
*charlotte corday: mob hat worn by Charlotte Corday during French reign of terror in 1793. Tricolor band and rosette was the distinguishing feature
*chechia: Berber skullcap or tashashit. deep cylindrical flat topped cap of felt with tassel. was worn by French Zoaves during 1831. Fez
*chef's hat: white, starched bonnet worn by chefs. The tall crown should have 100 pleats.
*chignon cap: small cap worn over bun at back of head.
*child's pudding: Hat with bumper brim that acted as a chock absorber when child was learning to walk and falls.
*chira: Indian turban
*chou: French for cabbage, rosette used on or off of hats, soft crushed crown.
*chuke: trolls stocking cap, knitted hat with tassel
*city flat cap: beret, small brim, wool, also statue cap
*claft: Ancient Egyptian striped linen head dress. the French foreign legion adapted the curtain like headdress for desert warfare.
*cloche: French word for bell. women's, 1920's, a close-fitting round crown, no brim or small flare at the brim edge identified later with flapper era
*cloud: a loosely made scarf. fascinator
*coal scuttle bonnet: 18th 19th century, bonnet with flat back and scoop brim,
*coalman hat: a shore visor cap with a protective flap at the back, protect their backs from dust
*cocked hat: bicorne or tricorne
*cockel hat: hat decorated with cockle shells worn by pilgrims who visited the shrine of St. James of Compostell
*cocktail hat: a small, often frivolous, hat for women, usually worn forward on the head
*coguard: Swiss 16th century man's hat edged with feather
*coif: head-cover worn by nuns as part of their habit, often with long veils
*coke: bowler hat
*Conch: shell-shaped hat made from thin gauze-like material supported on a thin wire frame. Worn mainly by widows in the seventeenth century.
*conch hat: a wide-brimmed palm straw hat of the Caribbean
*coolie hat: a conical straw hat, similar style worn by laborers in the Far East
*coon skin cap: not a particular shape, animal skin head covering, Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket
*coptain: a hat with a high tapered crown and narrow straight brim, believed to have originated in Spain in the 16th century; later worn by the Puritans and still known by their name
*cordie: 19th century term for plain wool felt hats
*Cornet Hat: women's hat that was gathered at the crown and had a narrow brim. Popular at the end of the fifteenth century.
*corno: 12th century worn by Doges of Venice tall conical ducal bonnet
*coronet: small crown worn by members of nobility as a symbol of rank
*cover: cordies with applied cod-wool and fur nap on the crown, upper and under sides of the brim
*cowboy hat: high crown and wide brim, originally worn by cow hands, usually of of felt or leather
*cowl: ecclesiastical hood worn by monks
*crepiniers: net snood
*crown: head-dress usually of gold, worn as a symbol of sovereignty by monarchs
*crush hat: collapsible top hat
*Davy Crockett: fat cap with animal tail swinging
*deer stalker: see below
*deer hunter: a hunting cap with visors at the front and back, and ear-flaps that can be tied up over the crown; known as a Sherlock Holmes hat
*derby: bowler hat
*diadem: head-dress or head-band, worn as a symbol of sovereignty
*disco: 1970's, small hat worn above the forehead and tilted to one side
*doll hat: a very small hat in any style, usually worn forward on the head
*dormeuse: French for sleeper, 1770's cap worn at night.
*duckbill: 1795, bonnet with long high curving bill, can be tied on under chin
*dunce hat: tall conical hat pointed crown worn by students not thinking
*Dutch cap: close fitting pointed crown cap, rolled brim, flared out at sides
*Easter bonnet: women's hat, a new spring style to be worn at Easter
*Egyptian crown: 1372 -135 B.C. helmet crown of white felt with red wicker crown.
*English driving cap: low-profile cap, small brim at the front crown may be tailored with side panels,
*escoffin: 14th, 15th century, originally a turban heart shaped from, then two horned shape worn of caul with a wimple.
*eton: special cap worn to identify boys at Eton College, England
*Eugenie hat: 1859 style of empress Eugenie wife of Napoleon III, seen later worn by Princess Diana with an ostrich feather and slight tilted over to the right.
*fanchon: French kerchief bonntet of 1860's small triangular with brim and crown.
*fascinator: see cloud
*feather bonnet: military head-dress of Scottish regiments, ostrich plumes mounted on a wire frame
*feather head-dress: ceremonial, symbolic worn by chiefs of North American Indian tribes
*fedora: felt hat with a lengthwise crease in the crown and a medium brim
*ferroniere: renaissance era oriental designed headdress.
*fez: conical, flat-topped cap with a tassel attached at the top center;
*fillet: ribbon or narrow head-band worn to confine hair driving cap
*flat cap: 16th century, knitted cap with flat top and beret like form. Seen on London tradesmen.
*fontange: originated in 1678, Duchess de Fontange arranged. A linen hat with tall erections of lace and ribbon supported by wire.
*forage cap: military cap with a small brim, also typical for police uniforms
* French hood: 16th century, worn in various forms, bonnet worn at back of head with a front border curving around the ears.
*fret: medieval hairnet
*frontlet: 15th century, callote
*gable 16th c. Hood with back curtain.
*Gainsborough: A wide-brimmed, plumed hat with the brim turned up on one side; It was named for the 19th century English painter
*Galerus: a round cap of animal skin worn by hunters and peasants.
*Gandhi cap: traditional Indian cap, boat shaped worn by Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader
*Garibaldi pillbox: 1860's, inspired by the Italian liberator
*gaucho: wide tilted brim anchored with cord under chin
*gibson girl: 1890's sailor hat style illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
*Garbo hat: slouch hat
*garland: a wreath of flowers (artificial in millinery), worn as a decorative head-dress
*gatsby: English driving cap
*gibus: collapsible silk opera hat, patented in 1837 by French inventor, Gibus
*Glenngarry bonnet: blue woolen cap creased through the crown , appeared in 1805 in Glenngarry, Invernesshire, Scotland, stiff sides, bound edges, short ribbons hanging in the back
*gob cap: name of cap given to enlisted men in U.S. Navy after 1940. white cotton, four piece crown, stitched brim. "Canadian for gobbie" means fisherman
*gondolier hat: worn by Venetian boatman, wide brim, shallow crown
*gorget: 14th and 15th century draped linen or silk draped and pinned to hair
*gossamer hat: lightweight muslin hats sized with shellac, used as bodies for silk plush hats
*half hat: hat that covers only part of head
*havelock: protective material that covers the neck attached to back of cap
*head: 1770's, Queen Marie Antoinette style of monstrous hair covering.
*headrail: 10th and 11th century British women's head covering wrapped over the head and around the neck
*heart-shaped headdress: 15th century, cauls
*helmet: military head-dress; protective head-cover
*hennin: a high conical hat with a veil attached at the top, worn by women during the 15th century OR insulting term for the tall, horned head-dresses.
*hijab: head-cover worn by Islamic women, often accompanied by the niqab (face veil)
*homburg: men's felt hat with a soft lengthwise crease in the crown, and a narrow slightly rolled brim
*hood: English - amess, French - amuce, amice
*horned headdress: 14th &15th century, cauls extended to great widths horned effect
*houve: a medieval cap or hood
*huke: 16th ,17th century, hooded mantle covering the head and body, moorish design, later used my Arabs, Moors, and Mohammodens.
*huer: a medieval cap
*hurers: wool caps, felted and shaggy
*Huve: tapered cornet projecting from each side of the head and being held in place with long pins. This type of women's headdress was popular in the early fifteen hundreds.
*Ivy cap: English driving cap
*jester cap: a bell trimmed peaked hood deriving from hat worn my medieval jester "Cap and Bells"
*jinnah cap: traditional cap of Pakistan, a karakul tarboosh, named for founder of Pakistan
*jockey cap: cloth cap, close-fitting 6-panel crown and wide brim at the front
*Juliet: a small, brimless, round cap of wide mesh, usually decorated with jewels. Renaissance.
*kaffiyeh, keffiyed: Arabian and Bedouin, scarf headdress held in place with agal
*Kakofnitch: Russian women's headdress in the form of a tiara or diadem.
*kalpak: a triangular Turkish or Tartar felt cap
*kamelaukion: ancient tall cone shaped felt or fur cap formerly worn by mohammeden sects
*Kate Greenway cap: illustrated in Kate Greenway books of 1st empire children, similar to mob caps
*kepi: typical cap of the French Foreign Legion, flat topped oval crown with a brim in the front, German , Algerian
*Kepresh: war head-dress of the Pharaoh.
*khevenhuller: popular man's har mid 18th century, deep front fronted turned up of the brim with small pinch, peaks at the sides, small turned up at back
*kippah: skull-cap worn by Jewish men, also known as a yarmulke
*klaft: ancient Egyptian striped hood
*Klaft: the head-dress shown on the sphinx. Striped cloth on which a sparrow hawk was woven, fits over the temples and falls over ears.
*Korean hat: traditional men's tall black hat with medium wide brim tied under the chin
*krizia: lacquered woven straw hat, round crown, rolled brim
*kufie: Islamic prayer cap
*kulah: Persian, Ancient Oriental, pointed skullcap. high cylindrical cap of felt
*Kyne: Greek soldier's leather helmet
*kyrbasia: ancient Persia cap of felt round with flaps to fasten under chin
*leghorn: Laverne, Italy... finely plaited straw hat
*liberty cap: Phrygian cap
*liripipe: evolved from conical hood with face hole, 12th century. peak later wrapped around head to form turbaned chaperone
*macaroni: small tricorne adopted by fashion extremists of the Macaroni Club of London in 1760, who were Italian travelers.
* mackinaw: U.S. man's straw hat, coarse brim
*mahrharmah: Turkish woman's hood covers face
*Mandarin hat: popular black silk hat with deep turned up brim, pointed crown with button on top, worn by Chinese nobles of Manchu dynasty
*mandel: a turban woven with silk and gold
*mantilla: 18th century France, lace head scarf, 19th century Spanish and Mexican headdress of lace with high comb
*mantel: up to the 12th century, Catholic woman's head covering
*marquise hat: 18th century ladies hat
*matador, bullfighter hat: shape of bull's head, short stubby horns,
*merry widow hat: 1907 century, fashioned for operetta "Merry Widow by Franz Lehar. Large hat with wide brim
*milkmaid hat: 18th century country fashion garden hat low crown wide brim tied with ribbon under chin.
*mitreboard: head-cover worn by bishops, characterized by two peaks
*mob cap: 18th century, indoors and outdoors, lace cap with large ribbon bow
*Monmouth: made in Monmouth England, knitted woolen cap with turned up band, type of stocking cap
*Montego: palm hat from Montego Bay, Jamaica
*montero: 15th -17th century, round crowned cap with divided flap that could be turned up or worn down, form of cap still worn by huntsmen and farmers
*Montgomery beret: type of British beret worn by Sir Montgomery in W.W.II
*morian: 16th century, kettle hat, used in infantry, skull with broad brim, flat, turned down at sides.
*mortarboard: flat, square, worn by professors and students for solemn academic occasions
*mourning bonnet: black bonnet worn by widows during the 19th century
*muffin cap: similar shape of a flat bun, popular children's hat
*Muller cut down: flat crowned bowler worn after the murderer named Muller had worn one.
*mushroom hat: a hat with a mushroom-like, downward curved brim, known as a Tiffany in Italy from the hat worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
*nap: 19th century term for corides with applied cod-wool or camel hair nap on the crown,
*newsboy: worn by newsboys, large, soft, 8 paneled fabric cap with visor
*night cap: men's cap worn informally indoors from the 16th to the 19th century.
*niqab: face veil worn by Islamic women, together with the hijab
*Nithsdale: traveling cloak with hood 1716. Lady Nithsdale disguised her Jacobite husband and help him escape from the Tower of London
*Nirvernois: small cocked hat 1780 named after the Duke of Nevenois
*Olicula: hooded cape worn by Roman women
*opera hat: collapsible top hat with an internal spring, so that it could be flattened and carried under the arm.
*optimo: panama hat with full crown with ridge extending from front to back
*overseas cap: olive drab cloth cap worn by soldiers in both world wars then picked up again in 1979 and 1981
*padre: low crown and broad straight brim with slight cure a outer edge. adapted from hats of priests. Parson's hat
*pakul: felted wool cap from Afghanistan, flat top rolled brim
*palla: Medieval European head drapery evolved from headrail
*panama hat: straw hat made with panama cloche
*pastorella: Italian, shepherdess, women's hat ,round crown, wide, drooping brim, usually of straw
*pedaline: straw hat
*petasos: a hat of ancient Greece with wide brim and conical crown
*Phrygian cap: conical cap with the top bent forward. also known as the cap of liberty.
*picture hat: a hat with a very wide brim, worn tilted to the side of the head
*pileus: roman close fitting cap of felt similar to skullcap
*pillbox: a small brimless cap with a flat tip and cylindrical side
*pith helmet: a helmet of cork or pith (dried spongy tissue from the soda plant) covered with cloth
*planter's hat: worn by sugar planter of Jamaica. Later worn by golfer Snead
*plug: top hat
*poke bonnet: 19th century bonnet, very deep brim and small crown
*porkpie: 19th cent. round flat topped crown, small brim turned up all around
*postillian: 17th century Rembrandt style hat of great painters later post riders
*Puritan: black felt hat, high conical crown, narrow straight brim, worn by the Puritans during the 17th century.Usually trimmed with buckle at the front
*puggaree: from Pagri, East Indian turban worn as protection against the sun.
*quake hats: 17th century high quality broad brimmed felt hats, gray or brown
*Quaker bonnet: 18th century worn by Quaker women
*Ramillies cock: 18th century man's hat named after battle, back turned up higher than the front.
*ranelagh mob: 18th century, form of mob cap worn by market women
ratters: straw hats
*rastafarian hat: called a crown, religious significance can be knitted red,yellow and green which represents the Ethiopian flag.
*reticulated headdress: 14th and 15th century braided coils of hair worn over ear ear, covered with cauls, or nets of gold or silver
*Ricinium: square veil worn by Roman women on their heads.
*robin hood: 12th century English hero and outlaw Robin Hood portrayed wearing a conical hood with self brim that was turned up at the back and worn down to a point in the front and trimmed with a quill
*rough rider: Khaki felt soldier hat of Spanish American War of 1898-1899, crown was creased and brim was cocked on one side. Named after Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's troop of rough riders
*roundlet: 14th 15th century stuffed roll of velvet worn turban fashion over close fitting cap
*Reubbens or Rembrandt hat: Large felt hat decorated with feather made fashionable from portraits of that period. Dutch costume
*sa shu: sakya hat, sakya crown, red pandita hat with lappets folded upwards and over the crown of the hat
*sailor: boater
*sennit: see boater
*shadow: 16th/17th century woman's hood wired and extended above head level, used for protection from sun as a shadow
*shako: a cylindrical, flat-topped cap with small brim; military head-cover
*Sherlock Holmes: deerstalker
*shovel hat: worn by Roman Catholic Priests in outdoor dress, low round crown and turned up on the brim sides with make the front and back project like a shovel
*skimmer: boater
*skull-cap: small, close fitting cap of fabric, knit or crochet;
*slouch hats: a soft hat with a high crown and drooping flexible brim; also called a Garbo hat,
*smoking cap: men's pillbox shape,19th century to prevent the hair from smelling of tobacco
*snap brim: brim turns down in front and up in back, made of felt, straw, tilted
*snood: Scottish term for fillet worn to confine hair; loose net for woman's back hair netting, netting which covered the headgear. In the fifteenth century it was decorated with pearls and jewels and worn directly on the hair.
*sombrero: Mexican hat with high, conical crown and very wide brim, usually of straw or felt
*sou'western: waterproof hat of oiled canvas, later rubberized, now plastic coated. worn by sailors as protection against the weather, the brim is broader in back to protect the neck
*spagnola: Italian term for a crowns indented crease around the top
*statute cap: a statute, passed in England in 1571 to encourage the wool workers, made wearing this cap compulsory for the common man.
*stocking cap: knitted cap, usually conical, often finished with a pompon
*stovepipe hat: a tall 19th century top hat, made popular by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
*stuff hat: 19th century term for felt hats made principally of fur
*sugarloaf: 14th 15th century, tall hat with curved crown that resembled the loaf that sugar was formed into for shipping
*sunbonnet: large stiff brim and flap at the back for neck protection
*tagal: hat made of hemp
*taj: a brimless tall cone shaped cap of distinction, Persian/Arabic
*tam-o'-shanter: beret with close-fitting headband, usually trimmed with a pompon; tammy
*tanagra: straw hat with tall conical crown from B.C. Greece seen on statues
*tarboosh: conical flat top felt cap with tassel top center worn by Islamic men
*tashashit: see chechia
*telescope hat: U.S. hat with circular fold around the inside of the crown with straight sides
*Templars, Templettes, 15th century, extension of the coronet to cover the peaks of hair
*ten-gallon hat: cowboy hat
*Thanet: bowler with low crown made in London for the Earl of Thanet, mid 19th century
*therese: 16th century large hood of gauze over wire/whale bone. a loose head-dress which was worn like a hood that covered the tall bonnets of the late seventeen hundreds.
*tholia: women's straw hat of Ancient Greece, wide and flat with a peaked crown: high, pointed hat with a brim worn by women of ancient Greece.
*thrummed hat: hat made of very coarse wool
*tiara: Greek ... crown. crown like headdress of jewels,
*Tiffany: a mushroom hat
*tip: 19th century term for cordies with applied cod-wool or camel hair nap on the crown, or small turned-up brim
*toongabbie: (1960) a washable toweling hat made of cotton terry cloth
*top hat: worn for formal occasions, tall cylindrical crown various heights,
*topi: Hindu, hat worn India and tropical countries as protection from sun,
*toque: French term for chef's hat.. also small hat for women, nearly brimless
*toreador hat: bicorne shape set crosswise on the head
*tower hat: high headdress from the 17th/18th century
*tricorne: men's hat of the 18th century, with wide brims folded up to form three points
*Trilby: soft felt hat, usually rabbit, dented crown and flexible brim.
*truncated tiara: Ancient Babylonian/Assyrian hat wool hat with short lappets
*Tudor beret: seen in 1539 painting of Henry VIII portrait by Holbeing. Velvet
*tuque: a Canadian cap made by tucking in one tapered end of a long cylindrical bag, closes at both ends
*turban: typical head-dress for Muslim and Sikh men, long scarf around the head;
*tutulus: Etruscan 700-800 BC Braided hairstyle of women evolved into conical shaped cap worn by peasants and soldiers
*vagabond: casual hat
*veil: cloth, transparent, netting covering the head and/or the face, for women's head-dress.
*Vitta: a headband worn by Roman women to denote their status as free-born citizens.
*volendam: Dutch cap
*vulture headdress: ancient Egyptian
*watteau: 18th century, small cap shown in paintings of Painter Watteau.
*watch cap: knitted navy blue cap worn by sailors.
*wedding ring: 1979 Frank Olivers round crown, rolled brim hat, shiny straw
*weeper's hat: heavy hatband of black worn at funeral's 19th and 20th centuries
*wide-awake: felt hat, 1840, large brim and low crown,
*widow's peak: a close-fitting cap with a point extending down at the center of a the forehead,
*witch hat: steeple hennin.
*wimple: head covering worn by nuns, linen or silk, arranged in folds,
*yarmulke: skull-cap worn by Jewish men; also known as kippah
*yachting hat: loosely base on naval uniform made with flat top and peak in navy blue and white, with badge of the front
*zoave cap: chechia
*zucchetto: skull-cap worn by Roman Catholic clergy