Cap with fur trim and lining

Rus, Eastern Europe 11th – 18th centuries.

Materials:
– Woolen fabric (colors may vary)
– Linen lining
– Fur trim (fox, arctic fox, beaver and other fur-bearing animals)

Perhaps the most common form of the hat proper was a kolpak or kalpak – a tall, tapering upwards (sometimes so much that the top creased and hung down). Below, the cap had cuffs with slits to which decorations were attached – buttons, clasps, fur trim. Caps were extremely widespread. They were knitted and sewn from different materials (from unbleached thread and cotton to expensive woolen fabrics) – sleeping, indoor, street and parade ones.
In a will of the early 16th century, a curious story is revealed about how the Russian prince Ivan took from his mother – the Princess of Volotsk – “for temporary use” various family jewels – including earrings from his sister’s dowry – and sewed them to his cap, and never gave them back. This cap must have been a very elegant headdress of a dandy. A century later, among the property of Boris Godunov, there is a mention of “a planted cap; on it 8 clasps and 5 buttons on the slit”.
The cap or, as it was called then, the klobuk was widespread in Rus in ancient times too.