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Making and Wearing a Steuchlein with a Wulsthaube and Schleier (German Bulge Hat and Veil)

The steuchlein is quintessential headwear for 16th c. German women of virtually all classes. You see steuchlein on Landsknecht trossfrau, farmer’s wives, and burger’s wives—in other words, married German women. I am wearing a steuchlein in the image on the right. A steuchlein is composed of four parts: Umbinderlein – linen strip at hairline Unterhauben – linen undercap Wulst – round… (more…)