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hey mates,

pulled this picture from another thread. looking at the hat on the right, I have a question- and I'm sorry we are going here. what does the hat appear to be made of in the painting? the artist has clearly made the hat on the left look old and "Soft" with wonderful shadowing. The hat on the right has held its tricorn shape, but what about the horizontal brush streaks. Based on the hat on the left, the artist knows how to do a hat. regarding the right side hat, based on the color and horizontal stripes may this be a cursed straw tricorn?

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Tell me that doesn't look like Captain Jim. C'mon, tell me.

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Unless anyone else can convince me otherwise, that sure looks like straw to me.

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Sewn straw plait rather than woven straw.

Like in this titfer

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In England it was a big industry in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Bedfordshire from the 16thC right through to the end of the 19thC. Women and girls were paid to strip and split the straw then plait it into long lengths

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then soaked and sewn in a spiral into hats bonnets and the like.

Italy produced the finest straw, called leghorn, for those low crowned hats worn by women in the 18thC by pauper or princess alike.

By the late 17thC the term straw could also mean various grasses, paper and occassionally wood chip plaited or woven into hats like straw can.

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Unless anyone else can convince me otherwise, that sure looks like straw to me.

Aye so it is to me.... pic is from circa 1730 BTW....

relying on Ivan Henry (there is 3 datong errors in his gallery( no offence) two Woodes Rogers picture and one Sailor returns picture is not from 1728 but 1750) it is mabe by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Ceruti .....

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I like to say soemting about sailors's straw hats:

Sailors in Napoleonic times (around 1790-1810s and later) used straw hats especially in the West- Indies. But it appears that before that time they were not very sailorous so to speak. Not to say that they were not used before but there was no common habit to sailors to use them extensively.

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What!!!? Captain Jim is superior to that fellow in every way. How dare you compare our captain (who will never accept his captaincy) with the man!

It's Captain Jim before he became a pirate and got the spiffy red socks and nice hat.

Incidentally, I think that would be an awesome hat for a re-enactor to have if they wanted to stand out in the crowd of tricorns. I'd be tempted to try and get one myself if I didn't already have a Patrick Hand Original.

Italy produced the finest straw, called leghorn, for those low crowned hats worn by women in the 18thC by pauper or princess alike.

Grymm, you are a fountain of knowledge! I wondered what Leghorn was (other than a place). I come across it occasionally in my readings.

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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leghorn is a rooster :P

in southern climates straw tricorns abound and often lead to scrutiny by the PC folks. I have not been able to find any documentation one way or the other until this picture came up, which now creates a suspicion of such- but still does not confirm it was done or who/ what class would wear them in what situation.

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Grymm, you are a fountain of knowledge! I wondered what Leghorn was (other than a place). I come across it occasionally in my readings.

Cheers chap =o) comes from not having much of a life outside historical stuff, started as a hobby and has ended up as my job.

Mr Swashbuckler;

For muddyevil straw hatness have a look at the lovely Karen Larsdatters site http://www.larsdatte...m/strawhats.htm

Many many luvverly pictures, in fact it's always worth bookmarking her site, makes for a good 'jumping off' point for image searches and 'taint just mud eater stuff either, Karen also has started putting together an 18thC version too.

Muddyevil http://www.larsdatter.com/index.html

18thC http://larsdatter.com/18c/index.html

leghorn is a rooster :P

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Grymm, you are a fountain of knowledge! I wondered what Leghorn was (other than a place). I come across it occasionally in my readings.

Cheers chap =o) comes from not having much of a life outside historical stuff, started as a hobby and has ended up as my job.

Mr Swashbuckler;

For muddyevil straw hatness have a look at the lovely Karen Larsdatters site http://www.larsdatte...m/strawhats.htm

Many many luvverly pictures, in fact it's always worth bookmarking her site, makes for a good 'jumping off' point for image searches and 'taint just mud eater stuff either, Karen also has started putting together an 18thC version too.

Muddyevil http://www.larsdatter.com/index.html

18thC http://larsdatter.com/18c/index.html

leghorn is a rooster :P

I I I I I I say boy!

thank you very much! :D:lol:

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