Fee, Jackie. Knitting Garb: Inspired by Originals: Designs for Plimoth Plantation – and Beyond. Plimoth Plantation. Print. ISBN 978-1-4951-3442-5. https://www.plimoth.com/collections/books-media-1/products/copy-of-knitted-garb-inspired-by-originals-designs-for-plimoth-plantation-and-beyond
– – Knitting pattern book published by the Plimoth Plantation with 13 knitting Pattern. Of the 13, 6 are utterly SCA appropriate and an additional 3 are highly plausible. Knitted patterns incl: flat cap, Gagiana flat cap, thrummed cap, MoL mittens, waistcoat, Tudor stockings.
Huggett, J. & Mikhaila, N. The Tudor Child: Clothing and Culture 1485 to 1625. Lightwater: Fat Goose Press. 2013. Print. https://amzn.to/2Hp9VK7
– – In addition to sewn clothing for children this also included a few knitted patterns. Knitting patterns incl: swaddling waistcoat, infant’s petticoat, coif, stockings, mittens.
Malcolm-Davies, Jane, Mikhaila, Ninya. The Typical Tudor: Reconstructing Everydat 16th Centur Dress. Print. ISBN 978-0-9562674-4-3. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1351741932/the-typical-tudor-reconstructing
– – Includes patterns for caps, stockings, garters.
Crowfoot, Elisabeth. Frances Pritchard, Kay Staniland. Textiles and Clothing C. 1150 – C.1450. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London:4. London: HMSO, 1992. p. 72-75 https://amzn.to/2QvgLm2
– – A section on knitting (pp. 72-75) with several pictures from finds in the Museum of London. No patterns.
Gilbert, Ruth. Knitting Unravelled 1450-1983 Reference Book. https://www.etsy.com/listing/250223782/knitting-unravelled-1450-1983-reference
Lynn, Eleri. Tudor Fashion. New Haven CT: Yale University Press. 2017. pp. 110-111. Print.
– – Painting of gentleman wearing a split brim flat cap and photo of extant split brim flat cap from the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A 1566-1901.
Rutt, Richard. A History of Hand Knitting. 1989.
Caps
Davidson, Hilary, Malcolm-Davies, Jane. “He is of no account… if he have not a velvet or taffeta hat”: A survey of excavated sixteenth-century knitted caps by aps. 2015, NESAT XII. PDF. http://www.academia.edu/14995373/_He_is_of_no_account…_if_he_have_not_a_velvet_or_taffeta_hat_A_survey_of_excavated_sixteenth-century_knitted_caps
Eva’s Historical Costuming Blog. 14th c acorn cap. https://evashistoricalcostumes.blogspot.com/2022/02/knitting-14th-century-acorn-cap.html
Gloves and mittens
Lyfflandm Anneke. “a study of a 13th-century votic knit fragment”. PDF. http://2cinquefoils.net/anneke/13thC-knit-fragment.pdf
late-medieval mittens in the January/February 2010 issue of Piecework
Costume Historian Blog. http://costumehistorian.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-sixteenth-century-mitten-from-london.html
A Bluestocking Knits Blog http://mathomhouse.typepad.com/bluestocking/2011/12/thoughts-on-the-late-mediaeval-mittens.html
Other
“Arts & Sciences Research Paper #20: Knit Purses in 14thC Switzerland” July 19, 2017 by mollyeskridge https://eastkingdomgazette.org/2017/07/19/arts-sciences-research-paper-20-knit-purses-in-14thc-switzerland/