Headgear
A turban band was a highly decorative cloth and/or metal band that went around a Mughal-period turban in India. It was designed to embellish the turban rather than having a purely practical function. Such a band was often worn with other items of jewellery, such as a feathered aigrette and/or a turban brooch.
A woman's coif and forehead piece are two early seventeenth century woman’s embroidered items from England, housed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA (acc. nos. 43.244a-b). The headpiece was worn over the head and forehead and covered by the coif or closely fitting cap.
The Textile Research Centre (TRC), Leiden, houses a woman's quilted cap from Niederhessen, Germany. The cap dates to the second half of the nineteenth century. The cap itself measures 16 x 11 cm. The four tassels are 60 cm long. The cap is made of black silk with decorative hand quilting and two pairs of black silk ribbons.