Orkney hood

The Orkney hood is relatively small, indicating that it was likely made for a child of about eight or nine years of age. The hood consists of three separate woven pieces; the fabric that makes up the hood itself and two tablet woven bands that were attached around the circumference of the bottom hem of the hood. The cloth that makes up the hood and the wider fringed tablet woven band seem to have come from other finer garments that were later cut up and reused to create the hood. In 1981 the hood was taken to the conservation and research laboratories of the National Museum of Antiquaries of Scotland for conservation. An analysis of the wool was undertaken prior to conservation, and it…