Orkney Hood Explained

The Orkney Hood is an Iron Age garment, now in the collection of National Museums Scotland.^[1] 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 Tankerness, within the parish of St. Andrews in the Orkney Islands.

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, .
• Gale R. Owen-Crocker: 'Orkney Hood'. In: 'Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles'. Brill Online, 2015.

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Wood. Jacqui. The Orkney Hood An Ancient Re-cycled Textile. 18 December 2017.