Woolen Caps Worn by Dutch Whalers Cap; finely knitted and multi-colored with red; green; blue; yellow and white horizontal stripes; lined with a coarsely knitted light brown hat; Cap; lined with a rough knitted light brown hat. The top of the outer hat falls limply over the inner hat and the whole therefore looks a bit like a nightcap. The outer hat is knitted in stockinette stitch with fifty-five stitches and one hundred needles per ten centimeters and consists of two parts; cut from a large piece of flat knitwear; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Zeeuwsche Uytkyck; Nordic Company; anonymous; c. 1740 - c. 1760; wool; c 64 cm x h 33.0 cm x d 29.0 cm