Google Translate suggests that the plain mesh is red dyed with madder and the embroidery is white and yellow dyed with weld.ĩ. Truiden and found at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage in Belgium. Truiden with lacis fleur de lis and bird designs. Truiden and found at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage in Belgium.Ĩ. A tiny fragment of a hairnet that appears to have been embroidered on with gold thread. Updated: Alwen found a link that is in color, but the photo is upside down.ħ. Fragment of a hairnet patterned with lacis birds This was also found at St. Updated: Alwen gave me a link to a color photo.Ħ. The picture is black and white but I think from Google Translate that the net is done in green silk while the birds are done in white. The incredibly fine mesh (64 holes per square centimeter, if Google Translate is correct!) is almost completely covered in colored lacis.ĥ.
Truiden, also at the RICH in Belgium, dated approximately between 1200-1400. The mesh alternates between plain mesh diamonds and mesh diamonds that have been split into smaller pieces for a highly striking visual effect. A hairnet made of red silk from sometime in the 16th century found at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Belgium.
The black and white photo shows one side of a hairnet that appears to have been done with a decorative netting technique (mezza mandolina) of large and small diamonds.ģ. a hairnet made of silk (1300) that is apparently in the Germanisches National Museum in Nurmberg. The black and white picture shows even square mesh with lacis designs.Ģ. Because I am unsure of exactly how the copyright laws work, most of these are just links to where you can actually find the pictures.ġ. I thought that since I am hopefully not the only person interested in such things that posting a listing of as many of the hairnets as I could find might be helpful to others. I have been trying to track down as many extant hairnets from the middle ages as possible, to use in my research of medieval netting. Extant Medieval Hairnet photos on the Web Februat 6:16 pm | Posted in Netting | 17 Comments