Sally, Thank you for showing this to us. I had no idea so many layers were involved. I can not be alone in finding the wimple attractive. It frames the face like a flower.
If you have a wood or coal fire/stove and use it a lot for heating and cooking, all the traditional head coverings, scarves, hijabs completely make sense. They keep dust and smell off your hair and help keep your hair clean. They are also great to keep dust out of your hair when working outside, and they keep the sun off your head. Very practical garments in the days when women couldn't shower and wash their hair every day.
This was great - I have dressed as a (modern) contemplative nun for research purposes and it's never quite clear how the nun's wimple is formed, although there are of course many variations depending on the order. You've done a perfect job demonstrating how the wimples we see in mediaeval artwork were worn. Glad I found you!
This was interesting and I appreciate another person asking about the usage of it for the time period and you answering them. Lol i would have died from heat stroke from all the layers wore back then!
Thank you! Now I understand the paintings and drawings I've seen. It beautifully frames the face, but now that I've seen the layers go on, I am astounded at how functional it is. In the hot summer sun, it would be so cooling, reflecting sun's heat, while allowing airflow. I also now understand better why some Asian and Mexican field workers use the same configuration today. I can't be in the sun, and finding a method to keep the sun off has been difficult. Yet, here this is, for me it is a gardening and laundry hanging wimple! It seems as though the selvage is a big part of the authentic look, which I didn't realize. I think the garment would be easy to keep up. Even very fine new linen has a natural stiffness, and if while wet, it was well snapped in the air, then dried, it wouldn't need an iron ever. Then water and sun, would keep stains at a minimum. This garment and the arrangement of it is just so practical! Thanks again.
I've wondered about the origins of wimples and other hair coverings for women like the hijab. To me its an interesting subject, how female fashions have changed over the centuries. Maybe wimples will come back in style using wearable lights.
I never tought about how to wear it. I'd rather would go for the question why to wear it, there must be a practical reason fur such impractical clothing - not just for religious reasons I guess - but I could imagine that this is also a good way to keep neck and throat warm without windchill.
You can really pull off a veil, anytime I try more covered styles I'm washed out. Maybe by putting some of my hair out (I have a really stark contrast between my skin tone and my features) maybe by trying different shades of veiling (a more natural looking linen or maybe a completely colored one as is assumed some were in the Anglo-Saxon era) or by playing with texture and volume and decorations rather than the sophisticated plain white
If it's linen, it probbly actually helps to keep you cool and avoid sunburns in the summer. Same if you look at muslim veils, or tuareg headcoverings - a good fabric choice for a head covering will alleviate a sweaty feeling rather than add to it :)
Good. I find a Wimple soooooo hot. That may be because I am in Indiana with 90percent humidity. It is a little cooler without the coif, since a little air goes up under the veil as I move or walk. It has almost the same look.
@@historybuff7491 i think its because of were you live, america as a continent was deseigned for native americans to exist and evolve, however in europe item like wimple is perfect for the natives of that environment and keeps less cold
@@michiga5220 More accurately, European historical clothing is suitable for what the climate was like in Europe at the time, and not necessarily for most parts of present-day North America. Even many Europeans have to make adjustments if they have to wear clothing from the little ice age in the summer without overheating, because it was noticeably colder back then.
Boy am I glad we do not have to put all this on daily. Furthermore wash and bleach and iron😁😁 Thanks for all your info, it surely amazes me every time!
I wouldn’t mind it being more accepted as a choice, but it has to be just that-a choice. And I’m definitely glad I don’t have to do all my laundry by hand!
You're not washing, straightening, styling, colouring, etc your hair at all every day- you're popping on a cap and pinning two pieces to it. It takes two minutes, and has multiple practical uses. Bleaching whites is done by the sun, and pieces this size don't require ironing, just shaking and drying flat. Most modern routines take just as much time, if not more.
@@ellaisplotting doing laundry used to be all all day affair, yes the sun bleaches your whites when laid out on the grass and kept damp! I do it here and there!
Thanks for the lovely little video! I'm wondering what the practical benefits of it would be in your experience. Does it shade the eyes from the sun, keep rain/hair oit of the face? What do you think the benefit/added modesty for the neck-covering is outside of winter - keeping bugs out?
It definitely keeps sun off, and hair stays clean and tidy, there's a lot of layered reasons though, it's not always easy to say it's just for this or that.
Is there any relation between the wimple and a nun's habit from that era? How were they different and/or related? That is, how would a nun be distinguished from a respectable lady?
Nuns could be from any social class and there is strong evidence that very wealthy nunneries with women from noble families often did wear fine cloth and be rather more 'fashionable' than they should. Chaucer's Prioress is a classic example. It's an interesting area to read up on.
The nun’s habit would have been pretty normal, if a bit old-fashioned, clothes when the uniform of her order was first established, but ended up becoming more and more out of date until it was seen as completely separate from fashionable dress.
I remember you making tutorials on how to refine thorns into pins. Were metal pins commonly used, or would thorns be more readily available to the average farmer?
Metal pins are widely available in the medieval world, but thorn pins are very plausible for poorer women although harder to document. We know they were still being used as dress pins in the 18thc on bedgowns in parts of Wales for example
I'm no expert, but there are probably a number of things going on. The first would be that it's quite common to designate social roles via clothing. Marital status, sexual maturity, or marriage eligibility is a common, socially important role, and various hair coverings are a way to indicate this (see also: hair lengths and styles worn upon maturity). Hair may indicate a person's public vs private appearance, but this is not really an explanation, more of a description of how hair coverings are sometimes used. Still, it can be socially useful and meaningful to have a "private" and a "public" appearance, and it should also be noted that many men across cultures and throughout history are also expected to wear headwear of various types (hats, turbans, caps, hoods, etc) The second to consider is that headwear like hats, scarves, and wraps are generally very common throughout the world. They serve practical and decorative purposes by covering the head and protecting it from elements, while also looking pretty. Since you mentioned religions, it's useful to note that some of the world's largest religions originate from a desert-like area where it's historically very practical and common for people of all genders to cover their hair &/or face at some time or another due to weather conditions. Things worn for practical purposes often take on cultural meaning, and while those religions have spread to other places (with Christians and Muslims being the most numerous adherents worldwide), the cultural and religious meanings surrounding headwear developed in a specific place. A third contributing factor is the fact that hair can be rather annoying to deal with: left to its own devices, it can get matted, tangled, attract dirt and lint, and accumulate odors (like smoke) and sebum (the oils our skin produces). Head coverings can contain and protect hair, and in this way it may serve a hygienic purpose, although if this was the primary purpose of head coverings, we would expect men to also sport hair coverings with a similar frequency and have similar cultural taboos against exposing the hair. Still, I would say that being able to keep wisps of hair out of the face while tending to historically laborious &/or hot tasks like cooking and laundry would be nice. Lastly, it's true that many societies throughout the world have strict hierarchies of power. If many societies are patriarchal or otherwise oriented around male power, it makes sense that women's appearance matters, especially as it pertains to ownership &/or social affiliation. If she belongs to a man's household and is married, that's socially important to indicate in societies where she matters more as a part of a household than as an individual (e.g. head coverings may be an indication that someone is "off limits" to other men, who risk offending her husband). Also, as hair is often an indicator of health &/or beauty, it may take on sexual meaning as a girl ages into womanhood, which is one reason why children cover hair less frequently (also because kids are not so good at handling fussy articles of clothing. Being entrusted with your own complicated clothes is a common sign of maturity. See the European trend of young boys in dresses until they were considered old enough to wear trousers). As for why religion, social power is often reflected in religious hierarchies, so if society is generally male-oriented and religion is a major cultural power, gendered religious teachings will also be common. If religion is very important in society and men generally hold the positions of power, religious traditions will often reflect male priorities. In a patriarchal society, women's sexual and social status is often very important to the men in power, and so it is socially meaningful to indicate that through dress. (There are many, many ways to do this that are not hair-related, like clothing styles, covering your torso at all vs being barechested, using specific makeup, tattoos, or face paint, etc., and I'm not trying to say that hair coverings and other social signals can only benefit men. After all, it is often quite economically and socially advantageous for women to find a good match, and dress/appearance helps communicate such things). None of this is meant to talk about why people today choose to cover their hair for religious reasons, as that choice may be deeply meaningful or important for people now and for our ancestors throughout history. But those are some broader trends underlying why hair coverings are common, why women's hair coverings are common, and why religious authorities may be the ones mandating such coverings. Religious authorities are not unique in trying to regulate people's appearance (see: european countries banning head coverings in public, which alienates many women who choose to cover their hair for cultural and religious reasons). Being able to control others' appearance is a mark of power and control (see the Manchu-mandated "queue" hairstyle. When the Manchus took over and established the Qing dynasty, they mandated specific hairstyles as a mark of control and submission. A common slogan of the time translates to "lose your hair or lose your head," because men who were not willing to shave the front part of their hair and stop wearing the topknot would be beheaded as enemies of the state. (deliberately removing parts of the body, such as cutting hair or beheading a person, was viewed as shameful as it violated bodily integrity, and the body was a gift from one's ancestors, so head-shaving was shameful, but so was beheading!)). Or for another example, see sumptuary laws controlling who was allowed to wear what clothing. So there's a very long-winded answer to say: it's complicated!
Oh, and as for why religions are more visible for hair coverings today when many hats have fallen out of vogue: religions can give clothing and other performances a deep meaning for people, which means that they stay around for longer times than fashion-only items, or practical items that are made obsolete. A hat is a just a hat until it becomes a sign of your relationship to your deity &/or family, and when it acquires that meaning, the hat will stay around for a lot longer than a hat that only means "fashion."
@@stellaluna6421 What an excellently composed reply! Oftentimes with the internet, you'll encounter a comment or bit of text that makes you feel as though you've grown dumber just from seeing it. Yours is a rare example of an informative and unbiased composition that increases the intelligence of the reader. Thanks!
You're projecting your contemporary sensibilities and opinions. The wimple, as well as hijabs, turbans, etc. were an extremely useful article. Like wearing a scarf in the cold or waders in a marsh. Imagine what it must be like taking care of your hair in a place without running hot water and billion dollar shampoo companies. Even now, some women choose to wear bonnets and hairnets for the utility of it. Don't assume that they were automatically miserable because they lived in a place without all of the modern comforts you've grown accustomed to. I'd be willing to bet that the ratio of happy to miserable people back then was comparable to what it is now. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if a time traveling archaeologist showed me a study insisting that MORE people were miserable today!
@@sigma6656 ^^^^^ exactly this. The arrogant/ignorant assumption that all the people of the past were somehow stupid or miserable because people apparently have no frame of reference for imagining any other way of living never fails to infuriate me. People back then are as people are now. People. They wore slightly different clothes, ate slightly different food, and did slightly different things. They still felt and chatted and wept and pondered as we do today. I don't know whether it's genuine cluelessness or some desperate attempt to make themselves feel better about their modern lives, but this weird presumptuous projection happens EVERY SINGLE TIME anyone talks about how people lived in any era other than our own.
Because the fashion was very different in medieval times in Europe, which is the time period Sally is portraying. Now we consider it restrictive to wear full head coverings, which is why it is deemed wrong for Muslim women to wear it, at least in most European societies. Mostly it is because a lot of people don't understand why Muslim women continue to wear head coverings, veils and other full covering garments when most non-religious societies consider it a bad thing.
So so terrible to wear all those window cloths wrapped around the head, luckily for us Christian women we don’t need to have our heads in parcels anymore 😂😂😂
This is entirely christian fashion that many nuns still choose to wear for religious reasons nowadays... No need to be both islamophobic and missing the point of historical education so firmly in the same sentence.
@@jasminv8653 Maybe no need for being critical to islam islamofobic is a word muslims call people who see through their “religion of peace” as the most hostile and evil religion that is practiced in modern times, but I don’t want to miss a single opportunity to tell the world what a stupid a hostile religion islam is so only critical
Sally, Thank you for showing this to us. I had no idea so many layers were involved. I can not be alone in finding the wimple attractive. It frames the face like a flower.
If you have a wood or coal fire/stove and use it a lot for heating and cooking, all the traditional head coverings, scarves, hijabs completely make sense. They keep dust and smell off your hair and help keep your hair clean. They are also great to keep dust out of your hair when working outside, and they keep the sun off your head. Very practical garments in the days when women couldn't shower and wash their hair every day.
LOL, I immediately thought of those early C15 Flemish painters, picture perfect. 😀
Ooooh, now I see, where does the sculpturing of our folkloric scarfs came from!
Your buttons are so beautiful!!!! :)
3 separate pieces- explains a lot. Thank you!
How amazing to be using actual pins from the period! Loving your videos, thank you.
Lovely. Thank you.
This was great - I have dressed as a (modern) contemplative nun for research purposes and it's never quite clear how the nun's wimple is formed, although there are of course many variations depending on the order. You've done a perfect job demonstrating how the wimples we see in mediaeval artwork were worn. Glad I found you!
I love how we can see all those beautiful buttons on your sleeves in this video!
You are a most respectable Lady. 🌹
So clean and simple. Wonder why the movies can't EVER use the proper headgear?
AND the actresses in historical films/series always show a lot of cleavage when that was simply not done at the time.
This was interesting and I appreciate another person asking about the usage of it for the time period and you answering them. Lol i would have died from heat stroke from all the layers wore back then!
White linen actually keeps you remarkably cool, and if that’s not enough you can always wear a damp veil to take advantage of evaporative cooling.
thank you for sharing this lovely how to video ... so enjoyed.
Thank you! Now I understand the paintings and drawings I've seen. It beautifully frames the face, but now that I've seen the layers go on, I am astounded at how functional it is. In the hot summer sun, it would be so cooling, reflecting sun's heat, while allowing airflow. I also now understand better why some Asian and Mexican field workers use the same configuration today. I can't be in the sun, and finding a method to keep the sun off has been difficult. Yet, here this is, for me it is a gardening and laundry hanging wimple!
It seems as though the selvage is a big part of the authentic look, which I didn't realize.
I think the garment would be easy to keep up. Even very fine new linen has a natural stiffness, and if while wet, it was well snapped in the air, then dried, it wouldn't need an iron ever. Then water and sun, would keep stains at a minimum. This garment and the arrangement of it is just so practical! Thanks again.
Thumbnail always puts a smile on my face. 😀
I've wondered about the origins of wimples and other hair coverings for women like the hijab.
To me its an interesting subject, how female fashions have changed over the centuries. Maybe wimples will come back in style using wearable lights.
I think a big part of it is we didn't have sunscreen or shampoo until the last century. Covering up kept your hair clean and your skin unburned.
Thank you! Thank you! Something so beautiful done so simply! Who would have thought!
I never tought about how to wear it. I'd rather would go for the question why to wear it, there must be a practical reason fur such impractical clothing - not just for religious reasons I guess - but I could imagine that this is also a good way to keep neck and throat warm without windchill.
Thanks Sally Blunt pins are tricky.
You can really pull off a veil, anytime I try more covered styles I'm washed out. Maybe by putting some of my hair out (I have a really stark contrast between my skin tone and my features) maybe by trying different shades of veiling (a more natural looking linen or maybe a completely colored one as is assumed some were in the Anglo-Saxon era) or by playing with texture and volume and decorations rather than the sophisticated plain white
I just recently stumbled upon your channel and I'm so glad I did! 😁😁
Hi Sally. Great video. Very interesting. Great material by the way. I like that. Very beautiful. You. Keep up the great work. Excellent stuff.
Lovely!😊
Looks so hot for Summer months. I bet it keeps you nice and warm in the Winter, LOL. Thanks for sharing.
If it's linen, it probbly actually helps to keep you cool and avoid sunburns in the summer. Same if you look at muslim veils, or tuareg headcoverings - a good fabric choice for a head covering will alleviate a sweaty feeling rather than add to it :)
Good. I find a Wimple soooooo hot. That may be because I am in Indiana with 90percent humidity. It is a little cooler without the coif, since a little air goes up under the veil as I move or walk. It has almost the same look.
If necessary you can always moisten the linen to take advantage of evaporative cooling.
@@ragnkja Yes I have done that, but it is inconvenient for a number of reasons.
@@historybuff7491 i think its because of were you live, america as a continent was deseigned for native americans to exist and evolve, however in europe item like wimple is perfect for the natives of that environment and keeps less cold
@@michiga5220
More accurately, European historical clothing is suitable for what the climate was like in Europe at the time, and not necessarily for most parts of present-day North America. Even many Europeans have to make adjustments if they have to wear clothing from the little ice age in the summer without overheating, because it was noticeably colder back then.
Your videos make my day every time! thank you for taking the time and care to create such great content!🙏💜
Learn something new everyday
Boy am I glad we do not have to put all this on daily. Furthermore wash and bleach and iron😁😁
Thanks for all your info, it surely amazes me every time!
I wouldn’t mind it being more accepted as a choice, but it has to be just that-a choice. And I’m definitely glad I don’t have to do all my laundry by hand!
You're not washing, straightening, styling, colouring, etc your hair at all every day- you're popping on a cap and pinning two pieces to it. It takes two minutes, and has multiple practical uses. Bleaching whites is done by the sun, and pieces this size don't require ironing, just shaking and drying flat. Most modern routines take just as much time, if not more.
@@ellaisplotting doing laundry used to be all all day affair, yes the sun bleaches your whites when laid out on the grass and kept damp! I do it here and there!
Thank you! My something new I’ve learned today. And you look very respectable!
Beautiful 😍
I think your brilliant and respectable! X
It looks cute!
Thanks for the lovely little video! I'm wondering what the practical benefits of it would be in your experience. Does it shade the eyes from the sun, keep rain/hair oit of the face? What do you think the benefit/added modesty for the neck-covering is outside of winter - keeping bugs out?
It definitely keeps sun off, and hair stays clean and tidy, there's a lot of layered reasons though, it's not always easy to say it's just for this or that.
Is there any relation between the wimple and a nun's habit from that era? How were they different and/or related? That is, how would a nun be distinguished from a respectable lady?
Nuns could be from any social class and there is strong evidence that very wealthy nunneries with women from noble families often did wear fine cloth and be rather more 'fashionable' than they should. Chaucer's Prioress is a classic example. It's an interesting area to read up on.
The nun’s habit would have been pretty normal, if a bit old-fashioned, clothes when the uniform of her order was first established, but ended up becoming more and more out of date until it was seen as completely separate from fashionable dress.
Wait, you don't have to knot it at the end?
Interesting that the portrait from London you show here is showing folds and doubling up of the fabric. I'm guessing for extra warmth on a cold day.
It could also be just a fashion choice, there are some that show loads of layers, very carefully arranged
@@SallyPointer I would love to look more into this. I suspect the fineness of nettle cloth could allow for some breathability in these layers.
Who knew the wimple could look so... wicked... :D
I remember you making tutorials on how to refine thorns into pins. Were metal pins commonly used, or would thorns be more readily available to the average farmer?
Metal pins are widely available in the medieval world, but thorn pins are very plausible for poorer women although harder to document. We know they were still being used as dress pins in the 18thc on bedgowns in parts of Wales for example
@@SallyPointer Thank you so much for your reply!
That last comment, so wonderful😂
What kind of material do you use to make it? Cotton or linen or… to be accurate?
Linen, cotton is very uncommon at the time
That portrait at the end must have been done in winter, given the layers of fabric on her headdress...
Not necessarily, illustrations do show elaborate wimple layers all year round, though I agree layers are great for extra warmth
Prelepo ,veliki lajk i pozdrav💕💕👍👍🙋♀🙋♀
Very Demure !
Yay! I've been doing it right. ;)
Respectable is overrated. Be like Maria and have curlers in your hair beneath your wimple. 😂
Thanks for sharing. I always learn something from you.
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It’s how I wear my head covering 😂
Maybe some of your followers may answer me a question. WHY so many of the worlds religions insit on a woman covering her hair?
I'm no expert, but there are probably a number of things going on.
The first would be that it's quite common to designate social roles via clothing. Marital status, sexual maturity, or marriage eligibility is a common, socially important role, and various hair coverings are a way to indicate this (see also: hair lengths and styles worn upon maturity). Hair may indicate a person's public vs private appearance, but this is not really an explanation, more of a description of how hair coverings are sometimes used. Still, it can be socially useful and meaningful to have a "private" and a "public" appearance, and it should also be noted that many men across cultures and throughout history are also expected to wear headwear of various types (hats, turbans, caps, hoods, etc)
The second to consider is that headwear like hats, scarves, and wraps are generally very common throughout the world. They serve practical and decorative purposes by covering the head and protecting it from elements, while also looking pretty. Since you mentioned religions, it's useful to note that some of the world's largest religions originate from a desert-like area where it's historically very practical and common for people of all genders to cover their hair &/or face at some time or another due to weather conditions. Things worn for practical purposes often take on cultural meaning, and while those religions have spread to other places (with Christians and Muslims being the most numerous adherents worldwide), the cultural and religious meanings surrounding headwear developed in a specific place.
A third contributing factor is the fact that hair can be rather annoying to deal with: left to its own devices, it can get matted, tangled, attract dirt and lint, and accumulate odors (like smoke) and sebum (the oils our skin produces). Head coverings can contain and protect hair, and in this way it may serve a hygienic purpose, although if this was the primary purpose of head coverings, we would expect men to also sport hair coverings with a similar frequency and have similar cultural taboos against exposing the hair. Still, I would say that being able to keep wisps of hair out of the face while tending to historically laborious &/or hot tasks like cooking and laundry would be nice.
Lastly, it's true that many societies throughout the world have strict hierarchies of power. If many societies are patriarchal or otherwise oriented around male power, it makes sense that women's appearance matters, especially as it pertains to ownership &/or social affiliation. If she belongs to a man's household and is married, that's socially important to indicate in societies where she matters more as a part of a household than as an individual (e.g. head coverings may be an indication that someone is "off limits" to other men, who risk offending her husband). Also, as hair is often an indicator of health &/or beauty, it may take on sexual meaning as a girl ages into womanhood, which is one reason why children cover hair less frequently (also because kids are not so good at handling fussy articles of clothing. Being entrusted with your own complicated clothes is a common sign of maturity. See the European trend of young boys in dresses until they were considered old enough to wear trousers).
As for why religion, social power is often reflected in religious hierarchies, so if society is generally male-oriented and religion is a major cultural power, gendered religious teachings will also be common. If religion is very important in society and men generally hold the positions of power, religious traditions will often reflect male priorities. In a patriarchal society, women's sexual and social status is often very important to the men in power, and so it is socially meaningful to indicate that through dress. (There are many, many ways to do this that are not hair-related, like clothing styles, covering your torso at all vs being barechested, using specific makeup, tattoos, or face paint, etc., and I'm not trying to say that hair coverings and other social signals can only benefit men. After all, it is often quite economically and socially advantageous for women to find a good match, and dress/appearance helps communicate such things).
None of this is meant to talk about why people today choose to cover their hair for religious reasons, as that choice may be deeply meaningful or important for people now and for our ancestors throughout history. But those are some broader trends underlying why hair coverings are common, why women's hair coverings are common, and why religious authorities may be the ones mandating such coverings. Religious authorities are not unique in trying to regulate people's appearance (see: european countries banning head coverings in public, which alienates many women who choose to cover their hair for cultural and religious reasons).
Being able to control others' appearance is a mark of power and control (see the Manchu-mandated "queue" hairstyle. When the Manchus took over and established the Qing dynasty, they mandated specific hairstyles as a mark of control and submission. A common slogan of the time translates to "lose your hair or lose your head," because men who were not willing to shave the front part of their hair and stop wearing the topknot would be beheaded as enemies of the state. (deliberately removing parts of the body, such as cutting hair or beheading a person, was viewed as shameful as it violated bodily integrity, and the body was a gift from one's ancestors, so head-shaving was shameful, but so was beheading!)). Or for another example, see sumptuary laws controlling who was allowed to wear what clothing.
So there's a very long-winded answer to say: it's complicated!
Oh, and as for why religions are more visible for hair coverings today when many hats have fallen out of vogue: religions can give clothing and other performances a deep meaning for people, which means that they stay around for longer times than fashion-only items, or practical items that are made obsolete. A hat is a just a hat until it becomes a sign of your relationship to your deity &/or family, and when it acquires that meaning, the hat will stay around for a lot longer than a hat that only means "fashion."
@@stellaluna6421 What an excellently composed reply!
Oftentimes with the internet, you'll encounter a comment or bit of text that makes you feel as though you've grown dumber just from seeing it. Yours is a rare example of an informative and unbiased composition that increases the intelligence of the reader.
Thanks!
@@sigma6656 That's very kind of you. Thanks!
@@stellaluna6421 Excellent and through summation, thank you!
A solution for not having to style the hair
arnt i gonna stab myself on pins all the time?
I think it's fine for women to cover their hair, if it is what they want for themselves and not forced on them.
Exactly, otherwise _not_ covering their hair is forced on people.
Please allow us to know exactly why there’s a grey platted horsetail on a stick. I only watched this to see you (not) attach it to your wimple.
That's a dressed distaff full of flax for spinning.😄
It's a distaff used when spinning
Thanks for sharing...
...but somehow I find it incredible, why women submitted themselves so much for a miserable life !!!
You're projecting your contemporary sensibilities and opinions. The wimple, as well as hijabs, turbans, etc. were an extremely useful article. Like wearing a scarf in the cold or waders in a marsh. Imagine what it must be like taking care of your hair in a place without running hot water and billion dollar shampoo companies. Even now, some women choose to wear bonnets and hairnets for the utility of it.
Don't assume that they were automatically miserable because they lived in a place without all of the modern comforts you've grown accustomed to.
I'd be willing to bet that the ratio of happy to miserable people back then was comparable to what it is now. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if a time traveling archaeologist showed me a study insisting that MORE people were miserable today!
@@sigma6656 ^^^^^ exactly this. The arrogant/ignorant assumption that all the people of the past were somehow stupid or miserable because people apparently have no frame of reference for imagining any other way of living never fails to infuriate me. People back then are as people are now. People. They wore slightly different clothes, ate slightly different food, and did slightly different things. They still felt and chatted and wept and pondered as we do today. I don't know whether it's genuine cluelessness or some desperate attempt to make themselves feel better about their modern lives, but this weird presumptuous projection happens EVERY SINGLE TIME anyone talks about how people lived in any era other than our own.
So why is this OK for a white person to wear but not OK for a Muslim woman to wear something similar???
Because the fashion was very different in medieval times in Europe, which is the time period Sally is portraying. Now we consider it restrictive to wear full head coverings, which is why it is deemed wrong for Muslim women to wear it, at least in most European societies. Mostly it is because a lot of people don't understand why Muslim women continue to wear head coverings, veils and other full covering garments when most non-religious societies consider it a bad thing.
@@Mommamacnz Racism plain and simple...Do not want Muslims to follow their religion...
Remember the year here is 1412, not today!
@@SallyPointer Today christian nuns still wear head coverings...Nobody complains or creates laws against them!!!
@@Mommamacnz 'consider it a bad thing' lmao why though...
So so terrible to wear all those window cloths wrapped around the head, luckily for us Christian women we don’t need to have our heads in parcels anymore 😂😂😂
This is entirely christian fashion that many nuns still choose to wear for religious reasons nowadays... No need to be both islamophobic and missing the point of historical education so firmly in the same sentence.
@@jasminv8653 Maybe no need for being critical to islam islamofobic is a word muslims call people who see through their “religion of peace” as the most hostile and evil religion that is practiced in modern times, but I don’t want to miss a single opportunity to tell the world what a stupid a hostile religion islam is so only critical
Weird... and here I thought nuns were Christian. Gee, I guess I must be mistaken. /s
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover there’s always a possibility to misinterpret what you read or hear and so you did and made a fool of yourself.
@@tettivestberg2989 What, precisely, did I misunderstand? LOL You do know that /s means it's sarcastic, right? Never mind. Go on with your nonsense.