Wimple Wednesday: Early 14th Century Wimple and Kerchief

Wimple and kerchief, as worn in the first half of the 14th century.

Look familiar? Yes, it's all the same pieces as week one, but updated to the early fourteenth century through a hairstyle commonly associated with Princess Leia.

For fun, here's the step by step:

The foundation: linen fillet and hair arranged in side-coils.
I experimented with having the fillet above or below the hair,
and an tentatively preferring it below.

Wimple over the hair. I couldn't pin it to the fillet at the sides,
so I tried pinning it to the hair over each coil (with some success);
the final method was to pin the wimple to itself around back.

Arranging the kerchief is still the fiddly-est bit.
I think it looks a bit nicer in person.

I think I'd like to play with the hair and fillet placement a bit more, particularly raising the coils level with the top of the head.  The linen I'm using isn't particularly stiff, but it drapes with a lot more body than the illustrations seem to show.  Linen tends to soften with washing and use, so that may change.

The only new component this week was my acorn veil pins (from Billy and Charlie's).  The technique (once again) is from Sarah Thursfield's The Medieval Tailor's Assistant.