Another try at a striped 16th century hairnet in sprang.

I made another try at the 16th century sprang striped hairnet. And this time I think it went better than the last time. I made more stripes and the threads for each stripe were not connected. In the last one they were. That ment I needed to put a binding on it to hide all the knots at the top. But a lot of 16th century nets has a binding, so that was not a thing. It took some time to attach all the loose ends to the binding in the end though, something you dont need to do if all the threads are connected. It took much longer to make the binding than to make the net.

Its made of 72 loops and a 46 cm warp.

This too is made in blue and gold linen. 6 loops of blue and two of gold. The goldcolour is actually called pumpkin when buying it. I need to buy some more of that, it has the right golden colour that was so popular during the 16th century in Germany.

 

Its wore with a wulst here but is possible to use without too of course.

 

Im in love with the back, it look so good! 

One end of the sprang fabric is collected, its the circle in the back you see in this picture, were the stripes meet. The rest is drawn together with the drawstring.

 

The binding is made of wool and the net has a fingerloop braid in blue linen to close it in the back. This net sold in under an hour, its probably the fastest I have ever sold anything. Another one is already in the making. Its a good thing its great fun.