Tudor Caps
For a long time, I have been thinking of the past. The glint of mystery it holds, a time when wood-heeled shoes clicked along cobblestoned streets, the flicker of lanterns casting a glow both comforting and eerie. Why does the past, a time unknown and unknowable, seem to hold this same glow? The mystery of a time long since past seems to grip at the flutter of passerby, tendrils of life on the periphery.
In the fall of 2023, I became enamored with Tudor flat caps. Knitting them by hand, using traditional techniques gleaned from museum archives and painting, I can reach into the past, to a time when things were made by hand, crafted to protect the skull from winter’s bite.
Liam O’Neill, photographed by artist in the home
Tudor flat cap, knit in Danish wool, fulled to a firm nap
Styled in Victorian garments, sourced and mended by artist
Tudor flat cap, knit in Danish wool, fulled to a firm nap
Styled in Victorian garments, sourced and mended by artist
Vakán Zsuzska, photographed by artist in her grandmother’s torn lace
Tudor pointed cap, handknit and fulled
A process of knitting through using DPN needles, in order to create gradually increasing structure
Agata Angilella, in a tudor pointed cap
Handknit and fulled
photographed by artist, in Budapest
lepcsőházban, gyertyafényben
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merre van, e hideg éjben
Here Lies the Body
Machine-knit American wool, embalmed and stiffened with beeswax
Ruminating on the presence, and lack, of the body
Rengetegekben // In Wildernesses
Exploring creating artifice in the studio environment through collaboration with photographer Lulu Hamilton
Talent: Abi Boquette
Photos: Lulu Hamilton
Creative direction, styling, garments, production design: Lilla Hagymásy-Rosenberg
Production Assistant: Lara Best Blomfield
Photo Assist: Sam Anderson
Garments:
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Hand-knit pointed Tudor cap
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Machine knit wool sweater, fully fashioned
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Walnut-dyed trousers
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Hand-knit Tudor flat cap
- Victorian chemise, mended with walnut-dyed scraps and hand-stitched