Colored turnovers and pearl work on hennin
and buttons on top
A knob on top
Flaps are pined together at the back
You can clearly see the pins
Truncated hennin over loose hair
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Long and high truncated worn with a wimple
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On this page you'll find various types of headdresses worn by nobility through out the second half of the 15th century.
Truncated hennins

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Almost triangular. Beautiful brooch in the front
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perhaps brocade or embroidery, may be beaded
Chin-band pined to the top
Almost triangular and worn over side-braids, veil is criss-crossed over it
Seams to be flattened. The top is oval instead of round
It looks like it's made like a basquet but it's more likely to be covered by a knited net. Note the way it's beaked and pinned.
Covered with a veil, note the lovely fold in the center
Made of brocade. Note the ironed pleats in the veil. It was probably ironed folded. Loop is triangular.
Letter "M" and "T" beaded in miniature pearls in each triangle for "Mary" and "Tommaso"
Color hennin and color veil.
Forehead is most incredibly plucked.
A wire is supporting the veil
Large loops low truncated forms
Trimmed and beaded in the oddest way
Large and straight form with a narrow dangling veil pinned at the back
Trimmed with beads. Worn with a chin-band
Short form and large form, both ornemented with lovely brooches
Embroided or beaded and worn over a white coif. A narrow veil is wraped around
Apears to be curved. Note the triangular loop
Veil is beaked over the loop and nicely pinned.
The butterfly hennin
The butterfly consists in a veil supported by metal wires over a truncated shape. A hennin is required to give the headdress its name, so please, do not confuse like many with the early "cornette" (first image) which consists in a veil supported either by a heart-shaped bourrelet or by horns. I made you guys a graphic of how it's done (image 3).
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The veil is supported by wires and is pined to the hennin
The lady in yellow has the hanging part of the veil folded back up. Note the gold loops
The hanging part of the veil folded back up.
Made with a roundish veil instead of square
Made with short and spreaded wires
The lady in the back wears an actual butterfly while the other one wears a veil over a forked hennin.
Created with a double set of wires above one another
Plain square veils
The wires are folded down in an angle towards the face and are very high at the back

The forked hennin
Here's a different type of butterfly were the wires are directed towards the back instead. The small ones can be very discrete...
The young daughters are wearing regular truncated forms in an upward position while the elder daughters are wearing the form at the back of the head (possibly supported by a bun). Note that the tips of the wires are rolled.
The wires start in a "V" position, spread and fold back to support the veil.
Here the hennin isn't truncated, it finishes in a flat cone. The wires are very close to the head, you can hardly make them out.
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This type of headdress consists in a truncated form, covered with rolled-up fabric sometimes secured by cording or trim, creating a padded roll. The fabric is only pined to the hennin. Do not confuse with the heart-shape horns or the reticulated headdress, which are also sometimes covered with such a padded roll.
Heart-shape
Forked hennin
Forked hennin
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The veil is pinned on the side with a brooch and is wrapped around like a scarf to creates a wimple
The roll is secured with trim
Worn over a coif, a veil dangles at the back
Nice bracaded hennins. The lady in the center has a brooch on the front
The roll is pearled and secured by trim.
The lady in the front wears a veil over a forked-hennin.
The extra fabric of the roll creates a veil
Reticulated headdress with padded roll
The extra fabric of the roll is dagged
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Reticulated headdress toped with a crown
Reticulated headdress with trimmed padded-roll, enclosed with a crown
This form is currently worn as a butterfly with wires supporting the veil. The braces around the ears supporting the weight are optional and rarely seen.
The roll is toped with a crown
The roll is ornemented with gems
The heart-shape horns topped with a padded roll
Padded rolls...
The first image is a great exemple that shows what the headdress looks like without the roll. In the story it's said that the rich lady is stripped-off of all luxury. On the next page of the same manuscript, she's depicted with the same headdress but without the padded roll. Do not confuse with the last exemple that shows a padded roll worn over templets (Hair in side-buns)
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Before and after taking the roll off
Pearls on a string holds the fabric together in oreder to create the padded roll. The horns are nicely trim and pearled as well. A brooch is worn in the front.
A crown is worn over the roll. The headdress is worn over loose hair. The roll is pearled and has a brooch in the front.
The first and second have a short pearled veil over the headdress while the third is plainly beaded with pearls.
Peals are sewn all over the roll