Orkney Hood

The Orkney Hood is an Iron Age garment, now in the collection of National Museums Scotland.[1][2] It is in the form of a woollen hood with tablet~woven trim and fringe.

The hood was found in 1867, in a peat bog in St. Andrew's parish on Orkney.[1]

References
  1. Wood, Jacqui. "The Orkney Hood An Ancient Re-cycled Textile" (PDF). Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  2. Gheorghiu, Dragoş; Bouissac, Paul (2015). How Do We Imagine the Past? On Metaphorical Thought, Experientiality and Imagination in Archaeology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 60-64. ISBN 9781443875738.

Further reading
  • Majorie Findlayson: 'Report on the conservation of the Orkney Hood'. In: Tom Bryce, Jim Tate (eds): 'The Laboratories of the National Museum of Scotland 2', 1984, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburg, Pp. 95-96
  • Gabra-Sanders, Thea: 'The Orkney Hood, Re-Dated and Re-Considered'. in Rogers, P.W., Jorgensen,L.B. & Rast-Eicher, A. (eds) 'The Roman Textile Industry and its Influence, a birthday tribute to John Peter Wild', 2001, Oxford: Oxbow. Pp 98–104, ISBN 1-84217-046-5.
  • Gale R. Owen-Crocker: 'Orkney Hood'.(subscription required) In: 'Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles'. Brill Online, 2015. ISBN 9789004124356

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